UN: Death Toll Exceeds ’3000’ in Current Yemen Conflict
Local Editor
The World Health Organization [WHO] said that 3,083 people have been killed as a result of the current conflict in Yemen and an additional 14,324 people have been injured, according to the organization’s latest figures on Monday.
The figures by WHO were released in a United Nations’ [UN] daily press briefing by the office of the spokesperson for the secretary-general on Monday.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out deadly airstrikes in Yemen since March- without a UN mandate.
Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in an attempt to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansoaur Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.
