News - Yemen: A citizen was killed at a military checkpoint belonging to the US-Saudi mercenaries in Lahj governorate.

Local sources said that gunmen at a point affiliated with the UAE-backed so-called "security belt" factions of the occupation forces in the Tur Al-Baha area, shot a passenger in his, killing him instantly, as he refused to pay a sum of money as levies to the point members.

This crime comes amid a series of the killing and intermittent crimes committed by the mercenaries against the traveling citizens, in the occupied governorates, specifically at the "death" point in Lahj governorate.

This crime confirms the continuation of the state of security chaos in the occupied areas, where the security points of the mercenaries of the aggression turn a blind eye to these practices and give up providing protection for travelers despite the crime taking place near one of the mercenaries' checkpoints.

Travelers and citizens say that the checkpoints are involved in the crimes committed against them. The mercenaries at these checkpoints carefully search passenger cars and communicate with the gangs to inform them about the cars carrying citizens who have money or jewelry so that they can loot or kill them in the event of resistance.

This incident recalls the crime against the young man Abdulmalik Al-Sanabani, who was killed at Tor Al-Baha point in Lahj Governorate after he had been arrested by armed men at a checkpoint belonging to the so-called 9th Strike Force Brigade of the Transitional Council. He was killed on his trip back from the United States of America via Aden airport, where he was subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and confiscation of his money before being killed.

The crime proves that the scheme of chaos and lawlessness and the encouragement of criminal gangs is an approach taken by the coalition of aggression as a criminal means to target citizens and travelers in the occupied areas.

Moreover, the heinous crime against Mazen Felita and other crimes of looting, killing and suffering experienced by travelers who are forced to take dangerous routes come as a result of the siege imposed on the Yemeni people and the closure of Sana’a International Airport by the US-Saudi aggression.