Mines and improvised explosive devices planted by Houthi militias have claimed the lives of two children and two soldiers and a farmer in the past three days on Yemen's west coast.

Local sources told Al-Masdar Online that a farmer was killed Friday evening when a Houthi mine exploded while ploughing his farm in al-Hayma area in Tahita district south of Hodeidah.

The killing of a farmer in southern Hodeidah was preceded by the killing of 12-year-old Shorouk Hussein Qayza’a, who was killed when a landmine exploded near their home on Thursday evening in the village of Mowazze’a western Taiz.

The incident came a day after two soldiers were killed, and three other soldiers from the Giants Brigades were injured, and damaging their vehicle , east of al-Mocha district in western Taiz province.

Meanwhile, a child was killed and two others were injured when a bomb exploded on Thursday in the al-Al-Jabalyah - Tahita south of Hodeidah.

On Wednesday, the joint forces' military engineering unit destroyed 3,000 mines (500 individual mines, 2,500 anti-machine and armored mouths) and was taken from the directorates of al-Mocha,  Mowazze’a and Al-Waze’yia in western Taiz province.