The United Nations has denounced Saudi-led coalition for its latest aggression on Yemen's Sa'ada province killing dozens of people and wounding several more.
UN raps Saudi-led coalition over fatal attack on Yemen's Sa'ada
22 Jan 2022 - 14:16
The United Nations has denounced Saudi-led coalition for its latest aggression on Yemen's Sa'ada province killing dozens of people and wounding several more.
Warplanes of the Saudi-led military coalition pounded a detention center in Sa’ada in the early hours of Friday, killing at least 70 people and injuring some 140 others, with reports saying that the death toll is expected to rise since many of the wounded were seriously hurt.
On Friday evening, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the UN chief had condemned “the airstrikes launched earlier today by the Saudi-led coalition against a detention center in Sa’ada city.”
Dujarric went on to say that further airstrikes were carried out by the invading coalition elsewhere in Yemen on Friday, adding that the strikes also led to deaths and injuries among civilians, including children.
He said an airstrike targeted telecommunications facilities in tightly-besieged Hudaydah that significantly disrupted vital internet services across much of the impoverished country.
“The secretary-general calls for prompt, effective and transparent investigations into these incidents to ensure accountability,” Dujarric said, adding that Guterres also called for urgent de-escalation of the situation.
Separately, Save the Children, for its part, said in a statement that three children had died in the western city of Hudaydah.
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