People of Aden stand in long lines to buy ice

ADEN, Aug. 24 (YPA) – Activists on the “X” platform have shared pictures showing dozens of citizens queuing up to buy ice moulds in the Crater area of Aden province in southern Yemen, which is controlled by the Saudi-led coalition.

This comes in conjunction with the angry protests against the deteriorating economic conditions and the electricity service in the city, where the hours of power outages reached to more than nine hours, in light of the high summer temperature.

Ice block prices have risen dramatically in recent days, with a kilo of ice costing around 2,000 riyals in Aden and 4,000 riyals in Zingbar city, the capital of Abayn province.

In a post on the X platform during the past hours, media activist Majed Al-Daari denied the claims of the local authorities to reduce the hours of power outages to four hours, affirming that six hours have passed and electricity has not returned to the citizens in Crater.

Al-Daari added that “the tricks of the authorities in Aden by announcing the reduction of hours of power outages are an open attempt to ease the anger of the local uprising in the city.”

YPA