More than 100 people have been killed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, the Red Cross has said. Bodies are being recovered from the rubble of a prison in Dhamar in the west of the country, the humanitarian organisation added.
Sky News reports that “one of those wounded, Nazem Saleh, said there were “maybe three, or four, or six strikes”, adding that it happened when “we were sleeping around midnight”. The Saudi-led coalition – fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels – said it hit a Houthi site storing drones and missiles, “in accordance with international humanitarian law”.
It added that “all precautionary measures were taken to protect civilians”.
Al Jazeera reports Yusuf al-Hadri, a spokesman for the Houthis’ ministry of health, saying that fifty people were wounded, he told the rebel-run Al Masirah TV, adding that 185 prisoners of war were being held overall at the Dhamar Community College.
Nazem Saleh was among those held at the facility. “We were sleeping and around midnight, there were maybe three, or four, or six strikes,” he told The Associated Press news agency.
Via Sky / Al Jazeera / AP
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