laitimes

Yemeni people fired guns to celebrate the football team's victory, killing 5 people and injuring hundreds of others

On the evening of December 13, local time, in the West Asia Junior Football Championship, the Yemen national junior football team won the championship by a final score of 5:4 after a penalty shootout. This is the first time in the history of the Yemeni national team that it has won a championship in a regional, intercontinental and international competition, regardless of age group.

The Yemeni public was overjoyed after the match, taking up arms and firing their guns into the air to celebrate this historic moment. After the bullets fired into the air fell back to the ground, causing a large number of casualties, according to incomplete statistics from the Ministry of Health (Houthi-controlled area) in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the tragedy of 5 deaths and 129 injuries due to the fall of the warhead after firing the gun into the sky. (Reporter Zhang Yuchen)

Source: CCTV News

Read on