’At Least 30’ Martyred by Saudi-led Airstrike on Yemen Factory
Local Editor
At least 30 Yemeni people were martyred and many others injured by a Saudi-led airstrike on a factory in Yemen on Sunday.
The victims are mostly workers at a mineral water plant in the district of Abs in Yemen’s Hajjah province, local media outlets reported.
According to medics, most of the bodies transferred to the main public hospital in Hajjah were charred.
Reports also said that Saudi warplanes bombarded the district at least 15 times and many people sustained injuries in the deadly attacks.
Saudi Arabia also conducted 12 airstrikes on the district of Baqim in the province of Saada in Yemen.
Recently last month, Human Rights Watch [HRW] confirmed that another Saudi-led air strike killed 65 civilians at the residences of power plant workers in the port city of Mokha.
Another Saudi-led airstrike, carried out in April, on a dairy plant in the port city of Hodeida killed 35 civilians.
Human rights groups have condemned the Saudi-led air strike aggression, with Amnesty International [AI] in a report released earlier this month in August saying that the Saudi-led coalition was leaving a "bloody trail of civilian death".
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 26. 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.
