13 teaching staff and four children were killed by a Saudi-led raid in northern Yemen, medics and witnesses said on Thursday.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
The ’civilian’ death toll is 17 including four children, the medics said.
The raid hit a building housing offices for a teachers’ union as well as the pro-rebel General People’s Congress party, witnesses said.
The UN agency UNICEF condemned what it called Tuesday’s "senseless bloodshed" in Amran province in Yemen which it said killed 17 civilians and also injured 20 other people.
The civilian victims have "paid a most terrible price in the continuing conflict in Yemen," UNICEF said.
"The educators were gathered together to prepare exams for thousands of children who had missed the end of their school year because of this brutal conflict," the agency said.
"Working after hours, they had brought their children with them. Some of whom were playing outside when the bomb exploded," it said.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently this month.
