What happened
Amr Yaqoub, 13, was killed by Houthi snipers in Osayfra on 5 June 2019, according to a Yemen Shabab Net follow-up. It identified this as an earlier incident that day, separate from the attack on Muhammad Imad’s family in eastern Taiz.
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Amr Yaqoub killed by sniper fire in Osayfra
Amr Yaqoub, 13, was killed by Houthi snipers in Osayfra on 5 June 2019, according to a Yemen Shabab Net follow-up. It identified this as an earlier incident that day, separate from the attack on Muhammad Imad’s family in eastern Taiz.
The victims
1Recorded victims
1Killed
Amr Yaqoub, 13.
Sources
Last updated: 2026-10-06