Yemen air raid kills 12

DUBAI / Reuters

An air raid struck a building in Yemen’s capital, killing at least 12 people, six of them children, when an adjacent apartment block collapsed, residents said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) denounced the loss of life as outrageous and put the death toll in the early morning attack on the Faj Attan area
of Sanaa at 14, with 16 wounded.
Seven people from one family were among the dead including four children aged 10 and under, the ICRC said, adding that a total of three buildings in the residential area were hit.
“Such loss of civilian life is outrageous and runs counter to the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict,” the deputy head of ICRC’s delegation in Yemen, Carlos Morazzani, said after visiting the site.
“From what we saw on
the ground, there was no
apparent military target.”
Residents and rescuers
dug frantically through debris, retrieving the bloodied, dust-covered bodies of several children. Chunks of masonry lay strewn beside gaping fissures in walls that revealed the apartments’ shattered interiors.
“There was a heavy overflight that lasted a little while, then four missiles were fired and a strong explosion happened,” said a resident who lives nearby and gave her name as Arwa.