20 killed in Saudi-led airstrike on fish market in Yemen


Sanaa, Aug 3 (IANS): At least 20 people were killed and 50 others injured on Thursday when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a popular fish market in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, a medical official told Xinhua.

The market is just about five meters away from the main gate of the al-Thawra Hospital, the official said by telephone on condition of anonymity.

"At least 20 were confirmed killed in an initial toll and up to 50 others wounded in the airstrike," said the official.

Many bodies and injured people were still trapped inside the market as the rescue teams could not reach the other side of the market because of the continuing air and sea bombardments, he added.

The attack was the latest in a series of airstrikes launched by the coalition against Houthi targets in Yemen.

Last week, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike killed at least five people of a family in the country's northern province of Saada.

The impoverished Arab country has been locked in a civil war since the Houthi rebels overran much of Yemen militarily and seized all northern provinces in 2014, including the capital Sanaa.

Saudi Arabia has led an Arab military coalition to intervene in the Yemen war since 2015 to support the government of exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

More than 10,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, have been killed in the war, and about 3 million have been displaced.

  

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  • Raj, Mangalore

    Sun, Aug 05 2018

    The western press is the ignoring the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world at the moment because Saudi Arabia is an ally of the West. The Indian press has also failed to live up to journalistic ethics, it has ignored the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    It a sannatta kyu?

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    Maintaining peace and tranquility in Middle East is quite important to the world

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  • Karthik Karkera, Maryhill Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    No outrage or criticism now ???Had it been Israel strike then there would be so much outrage

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    Mindless Killings ...

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  • Tausif, Mysore

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    Why USA Savior of Democracy not going for regime change in Saudi.

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  • Don, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 03 2018

    Very sad and tragic. RIP to the dead and get well soon to those injured.

    In events like these you will hear a deafening silence because it was the Saudi's that did the bombing, but had it been an American or Israeli plane then hell will be let loose with a barrage of criticism and condemnation. See the double standards and hypocrisy.

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