A three-year-old boy was killed by a mortar shell fired by Houthi militias Wednesday evening at the western entrance to the southwestern city of Taiz.

A field source told Al-Masdar Online that Houthi militias based on 50th Street fired a number of mortar shells towards the residential neighborhood behind the central prison at the western entrance to Taiz.

According to the source, one of the Houthi shells landed next to a house, killing the child, Abdul Rahman Habib (the head was separated from the body).

The killing of abdul rahman Habib comes 24 hours after 4-year-old Lolwah Majid Mahioub was shot dead by Houthi militia snipers in front of their home in the village of Tabish’a, east of Jabal Habashi district in western Taiz province.