Xinhua news agency quoted local medics in Yemen's southern Red Sea port city of Hodeidah as saying that gun shelling targeted residential homes in the region as of Tuesday, causing death for two kids there.

According to the source, the attack which targeted the government-controlled Hays district also left two other children injured.

The recent accident represented one of a chain of such attacks in the district after an UN-sponsored cease-fire agreement was held between the government and the Houthi rebels in Stockholm in December 2018.

Much of the port city is controlled by the Houthi insurgents, whereas the government forces have gripped control of the southern regions in the country.