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Saudi airstrike kills child in Yemen

Yemenis look as smoke billows from buildings after airstrikes by Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, September 16, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

A Saudi airstrike in western Yemen has killed a child and four other people, local media report.

The five lost their lives when Saudi warplanes bombed a residential area in al-Hudaydah Province on Friday.

Dozens of civilians have recently been killed in the relentless Saudi air raids across the impoverished Arab nation.

In a recent airstrike, at least 14 members of the same family, including several women and children, were killed after Saudi jets dropped bombs on a house in the Dhubub district of southwestern Ta’izz Province.

Elsewhere in northern Sa’ada Province, the Saudi aerial attacks killed at least six Yemenis and wounded eight others.

Earlier, a Saudi airstrike on the location of a wedding ceremony in Yemen’s southwestern Dhamar region claimed dozens of lives. Saudi fighter jets targeted the location of the wedding ceremony on Wednesday in Dhamar, situated about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, killing at least 51 civilians there.

A Yemeni man stands amid the ruins of buildings destroyed in an airstrike by Saudi Arabia in the capital, Sana’a, September 10, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

 

Meanwhile, Stephen O’Brien, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, has demanded an impartial probe into the deadly aerial raid on the wedding ceremony. “I call for a swift, transparent and impartial investigation into this incident.”

Saudi Arabia began its deadly military aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – on March 26. The strikes are meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

About 6,400 people have reportedly lost their lives in the conflict in Yemen, according to reports.


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