Feature: Yemenis' daily trek to fetch water symbolizes hard life struggle in war-torn country


  • World
  • Wednesday, 30 Mar 2022

HAJJAH, Yemen, March 29 (Xinhua) -- "The only thing I benefited from this war is these big empty containers of ammunition which I used to fetch and preserve clean water," said Hasan Shuey, a Yemeni villager living in the Abs district of Hajjah province in northern Yemen.

The father of five has become creative through his daily struggle with hard life, turning several discarded ammunition boxes into water bottles for carrying water from miles away on the back of his donkey.

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