ADEN, Yemen, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- At least two civilians from the same family were killed as a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday, a local security official told Xinhua.

"The two civilians were going to the public market to sell their vegetables ... when their vehicle ran over a mine planted by the Houthi rebels," the security source said on condition of anonymity.

"One of the civilians died immediately at the bombing site while the other died at the hospital," he added.

Last week, around six children were injured by the explosion of a bomb laid by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Taiz, a medical source told Xinhua.

Yemen has become one of the largest landmine battlefields in the world since the World War II, according to humanitarian organizations.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a large military campaign and seized the capital Sanaa in late 2014, forcing President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his government into exile in neighboring Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi Arabia-led Arab coalition intervened militarily and began pounding the Houthi-controlled Sanaa in March 2015, in response to an official request from Hadi to protect Yemen against Iran's influence.

The conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government recently completed its fifth year, amid growing suffering of the Yemenis and the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Enditem

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