Eight civilians were killed and wounded by a Houthi senior militant's gunfire in Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen on Sunday, it has been reported.
Hassan Al-Hajri a militant in the terrorist Houthi militia shot dead four citizens and wounded four others, after he plundered a plot of land belonging to them in the "Al-Hujaila" district of Hodeidah.
Local sources told "Al-Sahwa Net" that the Houthi militant seized the land belonging to the villagers of "Hanbaliya" village by force, and began building a house on it, and when the owners of the land went to prevent him from building, he opened fire on them.
Four of them were killed and four others were wounded. The sources stated that the four citizens who were killed are Ismail Muafi, Sawsan Ismail Muafi, Ibrahim Kalabi, Muhammad bin Muhammad Muftah, while the other injured were transferred to hospitals near the area, and their condition is described as very critical.
It is noteworthy that the Houthi militia is launching massive campaigns of plundering private lands in Tihama, and the pace of these operations has increased during the past two years, as the Houthi militia has confiscated large areas of Tihama land estimated at 12,477 square kilometers belonging to civilians in the Al-Qusra area of the Beit Al-Faqih district of Al-Hodeidah Governorate.