In October 2016, he was said to be killed by an airstrike by Saudi warplanes but the Houthis did not say whether Rowaishan was in the building at the time of the attack.

[2] al-Rowaishan was born in 1965 in a village in Khawlan district, west of Sanaa.

He started his formal education in a high school in Sanaa and graduated in 1980.

He also holds a Diploma in police Sciences, and Bachelor of Sharia law from the University of Sanaa.

After the unification of Yemen in 1990, he was appointed deputy director general of the Political Security branch in Marib Governorate, and then as general manager, which he served until 2003.