Death toll from gas cylinder explosion in Ibb town rises to five

The death toll from a gas cylinder explosion in a town in Ibb Governorate (central Yemen) has risen to five.

Local sources said that the child (Atef Riyadh Murshid Farea Al-Maazbi) died yesterday, Thursday, from burns he sustained as a result of a gas cylinder explosion in their home in the village of Al-Maazbih, Al-Qafr District, north of Ibb, on the eighth of last month.

The sources added that the child Atef joined his father, uncle, and cousin, who died in succession as a result of the accident.

On October 8, a gas cylinder exploded in the home of citizen Rafiq Murshid Farea Al-Maazbi, causing the death and injury of 10 people, while the Houthi militia flooded the local markets in the governorate and the rest of the governorates under its control with damaged cylinders, whose incidents over the past years have caused the death and injury of dozens.