Yemeni war victims seeking affordable and quality healthcare have found help here. Over the past month, people on the bustling Kammanahalli Main Road have spotted saw many foreigners with maimed limbs in the locality. They were civilians from Yemen, which had plunged into civil war in 2015 when Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized control over capital Sana’a and other parts of the country, and Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces retaliated in support of president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Thousands of civilians lost their lives and several were crippled by incessant shelling and landmines. At least 40 men from Taiz have arrived in Bengaluru. Most were hit by landmines in their farmlands last year. While the oldest is a 45-year-old man and the youngest is 19, most of them are students in their twenties. Some are farmers and there is a plumber too. They all arrived here three weeks ago.
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