(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Two Red Cross aid workers were killed on Wednesday by unknown assailants in northern Yemen, a Red Cross source said.
"Unknown assailants opened fire on Red Cross vehicles in Amran province's Huth district," Rema Kamal, a member of the Red Cross Committee in Sanaa, told Anadolu Agency by phone. "One of the aid workers was immediately killed and the other was taken to a hospital before he died there."
Al-Kamali said that both victims were Yemeni nationals.
The Red Cross is providing aid to Yemen amid a humanitarian crisis that hit the country because of the ongoing conflict.
Yemen descended into chaos last September, when the Houthis overran capital Sanaa. In April, the Shia militia also managed to capture Yemen's southern Aden province, from which Hadi € along with most of his government € was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia.
In March, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched an extensive air campaign targeting Houthi positions across the country, which in recent weeks has allowed pro-Hadi forces to retake most of Aden province.
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