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40 children killed in Yemen bus strike: new Red Cross toll
SANAA, Aug 14, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Forty children were among 51 people killed
in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen,
the Red Cross said in a new toll Tuesday.
Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the Thursday
strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, the
International Committee of the Red Cross said.
BSS/AFP/GMR/1316 hrs