Air Strike on Yemeni Prison Kills Over 100 People All

SEND, KOMPAS.com – More than 100 people were killed or injured in air strike in a prison Yaman, said the rescue team on Friday (21/1/2022).

Basheer Omar, spokesman for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, said the death toll was still rising after the attack in Saada, the hometown of the Houthi rebel movement.

“There are more than 100 people killed and injured… the number continues to rise,” he said, citing figures at two of the ICRC-backed Saada hospitals.

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Rescue workers pulled bodies from the ravaged prison building and piled up the destroyed bodies, according to footage released by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Further south in Hodeida, a rebel video showed human remains in the rubble and survivors, after an air strike from the Saudi-led pro-government coalition destroyed a telecommunications hub. Yemen is experiencing a nationwide internet blackout, web monitors say.

Saada hospital has received about 200 people injured in the prison raid and they are so overwhelmed that they can’t take in any more patients, said Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF.

“There are still many bodies at the site of the airstrike, many people are missing,” said Ahmed Mahat, head of MSF’s mission in Yemen. AFP.

“It is impossible to know how many people were killed. It appears to be a horrific act of violence.”

The attack came five days after the Houthis claimed a drone and missile attack in the United Arab Emirates that killed three people and sparked warnings of retaliation.

The UN Security Council will meet on Friday at 15:00 GMT in an emergency session on the Houthi attacks on the UAE, at the request of the Gulf state, which has occupied one of the non -permanent seats on the council since January 1.

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The UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition that has been battling rebels since 2015, in an unresolved conflict that has displaced millions of Yemenis and left them on the brink of starvation.

The coalition claimed an attack on Hodeida, a salvage port for the devastated country, but did not say it had carried out any attacks in Saada.

Saudi Arabia’s state news agency said the coalition carried out “precision air strikes… to destroy the capabilities of the Huthi militia in Hodeida”.

Global internet watchdog NetBlocks reports a “national collapse of internet connectivity”. AFP correspondents in Hodeida and Sanaa confirmed the outage.

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