Saudi-led air strike kills dozens of mourners at funeral in Yemen

Record ID: 82939

  • Title: Saudi-led air strike kills dozens of mourners at funeral in Yemen
  • Date: 8th October 2016
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF DAMAGE AT HALL WHERE FUNERAL WAS TAKING PLACE / DESTROYED CARS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) YEMEN CIVIL DEFENCE OFFICIAL, ABDEL KARIM MIYAD, SAYING: "We still don't have a definite final casualty number as we are still pulling bodies from under the rubble." VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO BUILDING SMOKE RISING FROM ROOF OF DAMAGED BUILDING AMBULANCE REVERSING VARIOUS OF AMBULANCES
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2016 18:49
  • Keywords: Sanaa Yemen Houthi Saudi Arabia
  • Location: SANAA, YEMEN
  • City: SANAA, YEMEN
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0035359QO7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE - THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL
    Saudi-led coalition aircraft fired rockets at mourners at the funeral of the father of the interior minister in the Houthi-dominated Yemeni government on Saturday (October 8).
    The attack killed at least 82 people and wounded hundreds, the acting health minister in the Houthi-led administration said.
    Ghazi Ismail told a news conference in Sanaa the number of people wounded in the attack was 534.
    Witnesses said a missile tore through a hall in the south of Sanaa where a wake for the father of Interior Minister al-Roweishan was being held, destroying the building.
    Sources in the Saudi-led coalition said there was no Arab coalition air role in the strike.
    Witnesses described ambulances ferrying casualties from the scene, where a plume of black smoke rose into the sky. A medic said there were mutilated and charred bodies, but gave no figures.
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