Saudi Arabia uses cluster bombs on Yemenis
Saudi Arabia has once again used banned cluster bombs in its deadly airborne aggression against the war-torn Yemen.
Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported on Friday night that Saudi warplanes attacked residential areas in Baqim district in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada province with cluster munitions, which are banned under the international law.
There are no immediate reports on the number of casualties or the extent of damage.
Earlier in the day, Saudi air raids killed at least 34 civilians, mostly women and children, and wounded scores of others in the border province.
Elsewhere, in the Sirwah district of the central province of Ma’rib, four people lost their lives and several others sustained injuries as Saudi jets pounded a market in the area.
Saudi warplanes also launched 20 airstrikes on the capital Sana’a, where 19 people were killed and at least 100 others were injured. The Saudis also carried out eight more air raids on a prison in the province of Bayda.
Yemen’s forces launched dozens of rockets against Saudi positions, killing three soldiers and injuring 28 others in the southwestern border province of Jizan. The Saudi civil defense agency confirmed the casualties.
Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units have pledged to continue their retaliatory attacks until Riyadh stops its war on the impoverished nation.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The conflict has so far left about 4,500 people dead and thousands of others wounded, the UN says. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.
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