Local residents in Badan district, eastern Ibb governorate, central Yemen, said that Houthi militants in the area targeted on Saturday a public transportation bus with an artillery shell killing three women.

The residents told Almasdaronline that the three women died immediately while others injured after an artillery shell had hit a bus in Tho al Rikham village.

The residents pointed out that the Houthis stationing in Qutni al Atharib hill fired the shell.

Early last week, the Houthi militants bombed a bus for Raha Public Transportation Company in Murais area, northern al Dhali’, and killed four passengers and injured others.