Some 37 people were killed and another 45 injured in explosions of landmines that were planted by the Houthi Group in the Kashir area in Hajja province on the border between Yemen and Suaid Arabia, said Wethaq Foundation for Civil Orientation on Monday.
The victims included six children, it said at a news conference in Sanaa.
The locals in the district are accusing the Houthi Group of planting landmines in the area after fierce battles with the tribes in late 2011, Wethaq said, adding that landmines continue to kill and injure civilians as the group refuses to be held accountable for that. The Houthi Group planted mines in villages, farms and roads, it said.
Separately, reports said Monday Houthis killed a man who erased their slogans written on streets.
Armed Houthis broke into the house of Abdul Wahab Qahwan, who the reports said was mentally ill, and shot dead him while inside the kitchen. Qahwan was 30 years old and had four children.
The Shiite Houthi Group, which the government says is receiving funds and weapons from Iran, controls almost all parts of Saada. It has fought the army six times under the former regime and since the latest war 2009 it has replaced the authorities.
It imposes the rule of law, its law which is against all the people who never agrees with its ideology and beliefs.
It kills, hurts, imprisons, tortures, kidnaps and deports those who never accept to do what it wants, according to the authorities and eyewitnesses.