A crowd apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen’s capital late on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people and injuring at least 73 others.
saying that these people talk to associated press, eyewitnesses said that because of the overcrowding, armed houthis fired into the air to deal with the overcrowding, and they struck electrical wires in the air, and these lead to explosions which caused the crowd to panic and cause the crash. but we cannot verify as the crash. but we cannot verify as the bbc that this gunfire actually happen. what we know is that the houthis are blaming the incident on overcrowding and random distribution of the funds. we had also from people who are against houthis that the houthis authorities requested from the merchants to give the money to the houthis is a foundation so that they can give it to people, but these merchants refused to do so and