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More than 100 believed killed in Yemen air strike: ICRC
SANAA, Sept 1, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – More than 100 people are believed to have
been killed when the Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels launched an
air strike on a detention centre in Yemen, the International Committee of the
Red Cross said Sunday.
“We estimate over 100 people were killed,” Franz Rauchenstein, head of
delegation for the ICRC in Yemen, told AFP after he travelled to the city of
Dhamar where the air strikes hit.
He said that at least 40 survivors were being treated for their injuries in
hospitals in the city, which lies south of the capital Sanaa.
The Saudi-led military coalition said earlier that it launched air strikes
against a Huthi military target that “stores drones and missiles”.
However, the Huthi television channel Al-Masirah said that “dozens were
killed and injured” in seven air strikes that hit a building the rebels used
as a prison.
The ICRC has sent medical teams and hundreds of body bags to Dhamar, saying
that it had visited detainees at the location before. BSS/AFP/SSS/1957 hrs