Dahyan
Dahyan ضحيان | |
|---|---|
Town | |
  Dahyan Location in Yemen | |
| Coordinates: 17°03′40″N 43°36′14″E / 17.06111°N 43.60389°E | |
| Country |  Yemen |
| Governorate | Saada |
| District | Majz |
| Elevation | 1,836 m (6,024 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time) |
| Climate | BWh |
Dahyan, sometimes rendered as Dhahyan or Duhyan (Arabic: ضحيان), is a town in Saada Governorate[1] in north-western Yemen. It is the birthplace of Badreddin al-Houthi, father of Hussein al-Houthi. During the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen the town was the location of the Dahyan air strike, in which a Saudi Air Force jet dropped a 227 kg (500 lb) laser-guided Mk 82 bomb on a school bus full of young children driving through a crowded marketplace, which killed more than 50 people, most of whom were children.
References
- ^ "YEMEN : provinces population". www.populstat.info. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-21.