Flash floods in Yemen destroy homes and families

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Sitting by their ruined home, Abu Ibrahim weeps for his son and seven grandchildren killed in recent flash floods in Yemen, where increasingly severe downpours are piling more misery on the impoverished, war-torn country.

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00:00We were living there, me, my wife and my husband.

00:03We were born here and died here.

00:06There were seven of us and eight of us.

00:14After three of us got on the boat,

00:19we rented a room in this house.

00:23We lived there for a year.

00:25I remember my daughter saying,

00:28when she heard the sound of the river,

00:31she ran to the other side and said,

00:34I'm going to the other side.

00:37I said, I'm going to the other side.

00:40She said, I'm going to the other side.

00:55Since the beginning of 2015,

01:06from May 2015 until this year, 2024,

01:12the country has witnessed about nine floods.

01:16This phenomenon did not exist before.

01:19Yemen has never witnessed a flood,

01:22not even the first level.

01:32This valley is divided into two parts.

01:36We are in the middle.

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