UN: Nearly 700 people killed and injured by floods in Yemen during August

The United Nations announced the death and injury of about 700 people as a result of the floods that hit several Yemeni governorates during the current August.

This came in a briefing before the UN Security Council, on Thursday evening, by Lisa Dotten, Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

“Over the past 10 days, heavy rains and flash floods have hit several governorates in Yemen, damaging homes, farms and public infrastructure,” the UN official said.

"Some 69,500 families were directly affected, many lost their homes and livelihoods, about 98 people were killed, and more than 600 others were injured," she added.

“Humanitarian partners provided immediate life-saving assistance – including food, water, hygiene supplies and shelter support – to affected families, delivered vital medical supplies to local hospitals and health centres and deployed dozens of mobile health teams to affected areas,” Dotten said.

She warned that “the lack of adequate funding continues to undermine these and other efforts to meet critical needs across Yemen.”