SANA'A, Sep. 05 (Saba) - Houthi rebels have killed six women and 10 children in Thwaib village in Haidan district of Saada government, state-run 26sep.net said on Thursday.Local source in the governorate told the website that the rebels have killed the victims by shooting them in heads and necks for their cooperation with the government.
The source said that the rebels have looted the citizens' belongings in the village.
The Houthi loyalists have taken the children from their families forcibly to fight in their side, or else they and their families will be killed.
Worth to mention is that Saada citizens have formed popular resistance committees in a number of villages and districts to defeat the al-Houthi loyalists of outlaws and saboteurs.
Local sources in Saada governorate said that Al-Houthi rebels have hindered developments and reconstruction efforts in the province and destroyed the infrastructure in the governorate as well as committing several crimes against the innocent citizens in Saada.
Al-Houthi rebels have been launching intermittent wars against the troops since 2004.
The wars have killed thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents in Saada province, which located close to borders with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded by rebellion's leader Hussein al-Houthi.
Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by the army in September 2004.
The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
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