The United Nations has denounced the recent Saudi strike on Yemeni school bus which claimed the lives of several civilians dozens of them children.
UN raps Saudi killing of Yemeni school children as ‘tragic, unjustifiable’
15 Aug 2018 - 11:51
The United Nations has denounced the recent Saudi strike on Yemeni school bus which claimed the lives of several civilians dozens of them children.
"What we are seeing today are the victims of the airstrike. The terrible human cost of the airstrike and of the war. The entire world condemns this," said UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen Lise Grande on Tuesday during a trip to the war-torn country.
On Thursday, dozens of civilians have lost their lives and dozens more sustained injuries as Saudi warplanes targeted a bus carrying children in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Grande added that the UN Secretary General of has called for an "immediate transparent, comprehensive, independent investigation," into the deadly attack on civilians.
Meanwhile, UNICEF's resident representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano, has called for an end to Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen and continued massacring of children.
"In the recent attack in Sa’ada, I have visited at least 13 children that have injuries and I hope that they are good to go very soon and back to play, and play football, and back to their normal lives because this has been a very shocking attacks, terrifying, which will leave them not only physical injuries but also psychological injuries," Relano added.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced 40 children were among 51 civilians recently killed during a Saudi airstrike on the school bus in northwestern Yemen.
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