Citizen sets himself on fire in front of local authorities building in Aden

ADEN, June 21 (YPA) –  A stall holder for selling clothes,  set himself on fire in a protest against abuses by Saudi-led coalition’s local authorities in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden.

According to informed sources in the city, a citizen who owns a clothes stall, poured petrol into his body and set fire in front of the local authorities building in Sheikh Othman in a protest against the confiscation of his goods by the municipality in the area.

Sources indicated the citizen has been taken to the hospital of Médecins Sans Frontières( MSF)  amid reports that he had died.

The sources pointed out that the citizen reached a dead end with the authorities and could not recover his property.

The citizen does not have the funds in order to pay the royalties and levies imposed by the authorities loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), one of the sources said, adding that the citizen  likely  hails from the northern governorates.

The local authorities in Aden exhausted the lives of vendors and stall holders from the northern governorates by carrying out arbitrary campaigns against them and destroying their families’ livelihoods without taking into account the living conditions of citizens.

E.M