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At least 1,732 people have been killed by a cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen since late April, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
A total of 313,538 suspected cases of cholera have been registered in 21 Yemeni provinces, the WHO said on Tuesday.
The northwestern Hajjah province is the hardest-hit by the disease, while the southern province of Socotra remains the only Yemeni province where the cholera epidemic has not spread.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. Local Yemeni sources have put the death toll from the Saudi war at over 12,000, including many women and children.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
