YEMEN-SECURITY/AMRAN AFTERMATH Several killed in Saudi air strikes on Yemen's Amran province - report

Record ID: 142853

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/AMRAN AFTERMATH Several killed in Saudi air strikes on Yemen's Amran province - report
  • Date: 19th August 2015
  • Summary: AMRAN, YEMEN (AUGUST 19, 2015) (REUTERS) TRACKING SHOT OF THE CITY VARIOUS OF DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS FOLLOWING SAUDI-LED COALITION AIR STRIKES MAN SPEAKING WITH ANGUISH DAMAGED FURNITURE AND DEBRIS ON GROUND MEN CARRYING REMNANTS OF MISSILE FROM AIR STRIKE VARIOUS OF DAMAGED BUILDING AMRAN RESIDENT, ABDULLAH AL-GHARBANI, STANDING AMID RUBBLE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AMRAN RESIDENT, ABDULLAH AL-GHARBANI, SAYING: "We were sitting around and were surprised when the air strike hit. There is no intelligence here, there are no military bases. This is the office building used by the ministry of education trade union. There are 18 victims." POSTERS OF FORMER YEMENI PRESIDENT, ALI ABDULLAH SALEH, ON WALL OF DEMOLISHED BUILDING MAN STANDING NEAR SITE OF AIR STRIKE DEMOLISHED BUILDING MAN HOLDING UP PIECE OF MISSILE MAN WALKING THROUGH DAMAGED HOUSE MAN STANDING IN RUBBLE VARIOUS OF DESTROYED VEHICLES IN STREET
  • Embargoed: 3rd September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA1Y2J6SY5TR4Q88MRFWAOMXHNV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Saudi-led warplanes struck the province of Amran north of the Yemeni capital on Tuesday (August 18), killing several people, residents and witnesses said.
    The air strikes hit a two-storey building used by the ministry of education trade union, causing serious damage to the structure and surrounding buildings and streets.
    "We were sitting around and were surprised when the air strike hit. There is no intelligence here, there are no military bases," said Amran resident Abdullah al-Gharbani.
    "This is the office building used by the ministry of education trade union. There are 18 victims," he added.
    The Houthi-run Saba state news agency said that at least 21 people were killed in the air strike.
    The air strikes hit a day after Saudi-led coalition forces hit Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeida. Officials there said the raids destroyed cranes and warehouses in the main entry point for aid supplies to the north of the country.
    Hodeida is controlled by Iranian-allied Houthi forces and has become a focal point of efforts to resupply the impoverished Arab state, battered by five months of war that has killed over 4,300 people.
    Also on Wednesday, the United Nations children's fund said the conflict had killed or injured more than 1,000 children, and the number of young people recruited or used as fighters has soared.
    Some 400 children have been killed and more than 600 injured - an average of eight casualties every day - since fighting escalated at the end of March, UNICEF said.
    A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been bombarding the Iranian-allied Houthi rebel movement - Yemen's dominant force - since March 26 in a bid to reinstate exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has fled to Riyadh.
    More than 1.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes since the start of hostilities, and nearly 10 million children - 80 percent of the country's under-18 population - need urgent humanitarian aid, UNICEF said in a report released on Wednesday.
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