YEMEN-SECURITY/AIR STRIKES AFTERMATH Saudi-led air strikes kill at least 10 people in Yemen

Record ID: 147483

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/AIR STRIKES AFTERMATH Saudi-led air strikes kill at least 10 people in Yemen
  • Date: 12th July 2015
  • Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (JULY 12, 2015) (REUTERS) BLAST DEBRIS HANGING FROM OVERHEAD CABLE / PEOPLE GATHERED AT BLAST SITE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT BLAST SITE MEN TAKING PHOTOS OF BLAST SITE ON MOBILE PHONES DAMAGED BUILDING SANAA RESIDENT, ADHAM ALI STANDING ON DEBRIS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SANAA RESIDENT, ADHAM ALI, SAYING: "People from the neighbourhood were wounded and some of the home
  • Embargoed: 27th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA39N8Z0EA7ZQZ2VAPHXT8GX7H5
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: At least 10 people were killed in air strikes overnight in Yemen, relatives and medical sources said, as a Saudi-led coalition continued bombing the capital on Sunday (July 12) in violation of a temporary humanitarian truce.
    The United Nations-brokered pause in the fighting was meant to last a week to allow aid deliveries to the country's 21 million people who have endured more than three months of bombing and civil war.
    "People from the neighbourhood were wounded and some of the homes were completely destroyed. Now it's all over," said Sanaa resident, Adham Ali as he stood at the site of a bombed out wedding hall that was struck overnight Saturday (July 11).
    A coalition of Arab states has been bombarding the Iranian-allied Houthi rebel movement - Yemen's dominant force - since late March in a bid to reinstate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has sought refuge in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
    A Reuters witness said air strikes on the capital Sanaa resumed on Sunday morning.
    "This truce is a lie. They continue to strike the citizens and their shops and the innocent people, the faithful, the children," said Sanaa resident Bassam Gassim.
    ''They are lying to us all. There is no truce,'' he added.
    The Houthi-run Saba news agency said 12 people, including two children, were killed in this round of Saudi-led air strikes across the country. Saba said the air strikes also hit clinics linked to the military hospital in Sanaa as well as trucks carrying food supplies in the southern city of Aden.
    The Arab coalition said on Saturday that the Yemeni government in exile had not asked it to observe the truce. But the U.N. Secretary General's office said beforehand that President Hadi had "communicated his acceptance of the pause to the coalition to ensure their support."
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