Aid supplies reach cyclone-hit areas of Yemen
Trucks carrying vital humanitarian assistance have started to make their way into the eastern regions of Yemen after local authorities reopened roads and restored communication lines in the wake of Cyclone Tej.
The cyclone devastated Yemen’s Indian Ocean island Socotra early last week before making landfall in the country’s eastern province of Mahra and some eastern sections of Hadramout province on Tuesday and Wednesday, causing sudden flooding amid heavy rainfall.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Sunday that the cyclone had affected more than 10,000 families in Socotra, Hadramout, and Mahra, destroying and damaging dozens of houses and washing away fields.
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