A DAD has been executed with an AK-47 in front of a crown for murdering his three daughters.
Chilling images show the man being led for execution in front of a blood-thirsty crown in Yemen’s rebel-held capital.
The dad was led to the central Tahrir (Liberation) Square along with two other men convicted of child rape and murder.
The three convicts wearing blue prison were laid on the ground face down before an executioner shot them in the back.
The dad can be seen kneeling and placing his forehead on the ground on a carpet.
After the execution he is wrapped in a carpet and carried out os the square by soldiers.
It was Sanaa’s first public execution since August 2018, when the rebels shot three men and hung their bodies from a crane for raping and killing a child.
Ali Abdullah al-Noami was found guilty of leaving his three daughters Rahaf, 7, Raghad, 12, and Malak, 14, to die in a water tank after a disagreement with his wife in June 2019.
Abdullah Ali al-Mukahali and Mohammed Abdullah Arman had been convicted of raping and killing an eight-year-old boy.
Yemen is one of the few countries in the world where capital punishment is legal, and even children were in attendance to watch the gruesome event.
The country has been in a brutal civil war since 2014, when the Huthi rebels -Shiite Muslims backed by Iran-have retained control of the north and gradually took over the capital Sanaa, which led to the president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fleeing the country in March 2015.
A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-majority nations is supporting government forces in the bloody civil war.
Tribal groups seeking autonomy have also become embroiled in the conflict.
The conflict has claimed more than 16,000 lives and left 13million people on the brink of starvation in what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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In many areas, the Huthi rebels have taken the law into their own hands and replaced the police force and justice.
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