Dahyan

Town in Saada, Yemen

Dahyan

ضحيان

Town

Dahyan

Location in Yemen

Coordinates: 17°03′40″N 43°36′14″E﻿ / ﻿17.06111°N 43.60389°E﻿ / 17.06111; 43.60389
Country|  Yemen
Governorate| Saada
District| Majz
Elevation

| 1,836 m (6,024 ft)
Time zone| UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)
Climate| BWh

Dahyan, sometimes rendered as Dhahyan or Duhyan (Arabic: ضحيان), is a town in Saada Governorate[1] in north-western Yemen. It is the birthplace of Badreddin al-Houthi, father of Hussein al-Houthi. During the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen the town was the location of the Dahyan air strike, in which a Saudi Air Force jet dropped a 227 kg (500 lb) laser-guided Mk 82 bomb on a school bus full of young children driving through a crowded marketplace, which killed more than 50 people, most of whom were children.

## References

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1. ^ "YEMEN : provinces population". www.populstat.info. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-21.

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