Landmine explosion kills three Yemeni women‏

Three Yemeni women were killed by a landmine explosion in the country's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Sunday, a government official said.

The deadly explosion was "caused by a landmine laid previously by the Houthi rebels in Hays district in southern Hodeidah," the local official said on condition of anonymity.

The three women were killed "while they were caring for their sheep near an agricultural area," the source added.

The Houthi-laid landmines and IEDs continue to pose a real threat to the civilians despite the ongoing efforts by the experts of the mine-clearing projects in Yemen.

Previous reports by humanitarian organizations said Yemen has become one of the largest landmine battlefields in the world since World War II.