Father killed by a mine while farming a month after his wife’s death

What happened

A father was killed by a mine while farming in al-Shaqb one month after his wife’s death in February 2022—March of that year according to the chronology their child gave Human Rights Watch.

The child said the father worked the land daily and was killed after entering the field one morning.

Human Rights Watch documented the incident in its al-Shaqb investigation, citing residents who said Houthi forces planted mines in and around homes and farms. Attribution rests on residents’ accounts of mining in the area, not identification of the person who laid this particular device.