18 Killed, Injured as Airstrike Hits Yemen School: Medics
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An airstrike by the Saudi warplanes on a primary school in northern Yemen Tuesday killed five people including two children, medical and military sources said.
The headmaster and two other staff members were among those killed in the air raid in the district of Nihm, northeast of the capital Sana’a, which also left 13 wounded, the sources said, AFP reported.
A medical source at Kuwait Hospital in Sana’a confirmed the casualty toll.
Rights groups have repeatedly criticized the Saudi-led coalition over the civilian casualties inflicted by its airstrikes on the impoverished Arab country.
In August, an airstrike on a Quranic school in the northern Sa’ada province killed 10 children and wounded 28 others, prompting a UN call for a swift investigation.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition led by the Saudi regime for more than 21 months but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, the kingdom and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 10,000 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.