Houthi militants have killed five people including three brothers and a child, on their terraces in north Yemen's Hajjah province over alleged land dispute, Yemeni activists said on Sunday.
Activists said militants from Bani Alsabah clan led by their relative Hamed Alsabah, an influential officer in the Houthi militia's local "Criminal Investigation Department" shot dead five unarmed people and injured a sixth on Sadeq Alnajjar's farm in Saasah neighborhood in Hajjah. "Four of the slain are members of Alnjjar family although the victims were unarmed and only gardening tool in their possession at the moment," said one source. "The slain are Hazem Sadeq Alnajjar, his 9-year-old son Mohammed, and his brothers Saddam and Yunus and a man named Abdurahman Alshoomi."
A fourth to the three brothers (Ahmed Sadeq Alnajjar) was wounded.