Dahyan

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 Badreddin al-Houthi. During the Saudi Arabian-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.

Dahyan ضحيان
Town
Dahyan Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 17°03′40″N 43°36′14″E
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Saada
District	Majz
Elevation	1,836 m (6,024 ft)
Time zone	UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)
Climate	BWh

References

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