[Yemen Post] A 10-year old boy died while playing with an extruded missile in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Sunday, the Yemeni state news agency Saba reported quoting a statement by a local security source. Mubarak Muhammad Naji died and two girl children, 9-year old Ohoud and 12-year old Asmaa, were maimed in the kaboom of the missile that happened in 6th Street, the source said.
The authorities have and launched an investigation into the accident and warned to avoid such stuffs when found, Saba said.
Taiz was one of the Yemeni cities which turned into open battlefields for fierce battles between pro- and anti-revolution forces last year.
When mass protests erupted against the former regime, the unrest deepened the country's crises and then conflicts killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands of families in the north and south.
Scores have been killed and injured in landmine kabooms since displaced families returned to their homes in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
where the army fought and drove Al-Qaeda out of their strongholds this year.