Students displaced by the fighting in the Red Sea city of Hodeidah take their high school exam away from home in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, Yemen June 30, 2018. Picture taken June 30, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
SANAA (Reuters) - Fighting in a port city in Yemen has forced around 2,000 high school students to flee to the capital to sit exams, braving a six-hour journey along a mountain road scarred by land mines and aerial bombardment.
The boys and girls started arriving on June 21 for the university entrance exams having left Hodeidah because of a battle that began on June 12 between Houthi rebels aligned to Iran and a coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
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