The Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday, launched a wide-ranging campaign of raids on shops and markets in various areas of Mikhlaf Al-'Oud in Qataba district of Dhalea governorate, in southern Yemen.
Local sources said that militia members raided money exchanges, gas stations, restaurants and markets in various areas south of Mikhlaf Al-'Oud area.
The sources indicated that Houthis raided the shopkeepers and money changers in the areas of Beit Al-Shawki, Al-Khirbet Al-Sabari, Azab, Beit Al-Sharji, Al-Qurain Al-Fahd, Habeel Al-Sama’i and others, and seized millions of riyals from the new edition of the currency under the pretext of its "illegality" - as far as they described -
According to the sources, the militia threatened the shopkeepers with arrest and referred them to the prosecution if they continued to deal with the new edition of the Yemeni currency.
Iran-backed Houthis raid shops and markets in Yemen's Dhalea
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