28 Mar 2024
Thursday 9 August 2018 - 15:35
Story Code : 315206

Saudi jets attacks bus carrying children, leave 43 civilians dead

Press TV - Dozens of civilians have lost their lives and dozens more sustained injuries as Saudi warplanes targeted a bus carrying children in Yemens northwestern province of Saada.

The bus came under attack at a market inthe Saada town of Zahyn on Thursday, Yemens al-Masirah television network reported.

Abdul-Ghani Nayeb, head of a health department in Saada, put the number of the deaths at 43, saying over 60 others were also wounded.



TheInternational Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) said in a statement thatthe bus was carrying children.

Johannes Bruwer, head of delegation for the ICRC in Yemen, also said in a tweet that most of the victims were under the age of 10.

Elsewhere, Saudi fighter jets pounded Zabid District in Yemens western province of Hudaydah, killing two civilians and injuring one child.

Saudi Arabia and some of its allies, particularly the United Arab Emirates, launched a brutal war, code-named Operation Decisive Storm, against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Ansarullah movement.

The offensive initially consisted of a bombing campaign, but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces into Yemen.

The imposed war has so far failed to achieve its goal, thanks to firm resistance mounted by Yemeni troops and Houthi fighters, but has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis in the poorest Arabian Peninsula state.
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