Including his wife and children. Yemeni kills 12 people in family dispute

Yemeni officials said Tuesday that a Yemeni man had killed at least 10 people, including his wife and three children, in a family dispute in the Al-Bayda governorate in central Yemen.

Authorities said the father-of-three was trying to resolve an internal dispute with his wife, who had stayed at her family home for three weeks after the couple’s third child was born.

They added that the man, who was in his early 20s, opened fire on his wife’s family, killing at least 12 people and wounding four others, including three policemen, and authorities said his wife, two children and the couple’s 20-day-old baby. .

Authorities confirmed that security forces killed the man in an exchange of gunfire as he tried to flee. It was not immediately clear what caused the family’s dispute, and they said the accident occurred Monday night in the Sharia neighborhood of the city of Al-Bayda.

Notably, Yemen was in a state of chaos and civil war when the Houthis seized the capital, Sana’a, in 2014 from the internationally recognized government, and the war in Yemen caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with millions of people. suffering from food and medicine shortages. More than 112,000 people have died, including combatants and civilians, according to a database project that tracks the violence.