SANAA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- A mother and her four children were killed when a rocket fired by Houthi rebels hit a house in Yemen's besieged province of Taiz on Sunday, pro-government Almasdaronline reported.
The rebels' attack targeted Mashrafah village near Habashi mountain, it said.
Houthi rebels have made no comment yet on the report.
Taiz, Yemen's third largest province located about 256 km south of the capital Sanaa, has been under rebels' siege since 2016. The government controls the province's center and parts of the western and southern districts.
The over-four-year civil war has worsened the humanitarian situation and triggered what the United Nations calls the world's most humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.
Houthi rebels revolted against the government in late 2014, forcing it into exile and seized much of the country's north.
Last December, the warring parties reached a peace deal in Sweden over Taiz and adjacent Hodeidah port city, but both sides have largely failed to implement the deal.
