At Least 29 Children Killed By Saudi-Led Air Strike On Yemen School Bus
At Least 29 Children Killed By Saudi-Led Air Strike On Yemen School Bus
Minimum 29 children were killed and 30 others were injured when a missile hit a school bus in a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen. In totality, nearly 45 people were killed and 61 others were injured in the air strike that destroyed a market town in Dahyan in the northern province of Saada.
According to the Saudi-led coalition, this attack was to target the Shia rebels, known as Houthis as their actions were “legitimate”. Also, that it has never deliberately targeted civilians.
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Body bags filled the floor of a room in the hospital.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that its team at a hospital in Saada received the bodies of 29 children, all under 15 years old.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that their team is present at the hospital and they received the bodies of 29 children all aged between 15 years old.
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Abdul-Ghani Sareeh, from Saada health department, said: "A bus carrying children was targeted today [Thursday] while they were coming from summer school resulting in 43 martyrs and almost 63 wounded."
The attack targeted the rebels who had fired a missile at the kingdom's south, killing one person and wounding 11 others.
The missile was launched "deliberately to target residential and populated areas”.
Saudi Arabia backs Yemen's internationally recognised government and has been at war with the Houthis since March 2015.
"Scores killed, even more, injured, most under the age of ten," the head of the ICRC in Yemen, Johannes Bruwer, said on his Twitter account, adding that the ICRC in Yemen is "sending additional supplies to hospitals to cope with the influx".
-PTC NEWS
