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100 killed in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen – Red Cross/Crescent

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epa07810819 Yemeni Red Crescent staffers carry the body of a detainee from the rubble at a detention centre after it was hit by alleged Saudi-led airstrikes in Dhamar, Yemen, 01 September 2019. According to reports, at least 100 detainees have been killed and about 50 others wounded in alleged Saudi-led airstrikes which targeted a detention center held by the Houthi rebels in the central Yemeni province of Dhamar. EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB

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 

Topics Saudi ArabiaYemen