YEMEN: 36 Yemeni Civilians Killed By A Saudi-Led Coalition Air Strike
A Saudi-led coalition air strike targeted to a bomb-making factory killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday.
The attacks were the latest in an air campaign launched in March by an alliance made up mainly of Gulf Arab states in support of the exiled government in its fight against Houthi forces allied to Iran. Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri denied the strike had hit a civilian target, saying it was a location used by the Houthis to make improvised explosive devices and to train African migrants whom they had forced to take up arms. “We got very accurate information about this position and attacked it. It is not a bottling factory,” he said.
In another air raid on the capital Sanaa, residents said four civilians were killed when a bomb hit their house near a military base in the south of the city.
Till this date, more than 4,300 people have been killed in five months of war in Yemen while disease and suffering in the already impoverished country have spread.
Sources:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1203881
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/30/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN0QZ09P20150830