A five-man team of mine-planting experts were killed on board a military boat belonging to the Houthi militias while trying to plant mines off the coast of Midi by shelling from Yemeni National Army, a spokesman in the fifth military zone reported.

The source said that the naval forces spotted the boat's movements as it approached one of the islands in the sea, where naval forces of the National Army forces were present. They destroyed the boat with a missile and killed all members of the engineering team on board.

source: Alarabiya