Two Red Crescent Volunteers Killed in Saudi-led Airstrike in Yemen
Local Editor
Two Red Crescent volunteers were killed in a Saudi-led airstrike south of Yemen’s capital, the Red Cross said on Wednesday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that Qaed Faisal, 28, and Omar Fareh, 31, died along with several other civilians in a Saudi-led raid in Al-Swaida area of Taez province on Monday.
It noted in a statement that the attack took place on the same day that more than 130 people were killed in a reported Saudi-led air strike on a wedding hall near Mokha on the Red Sea.
Saudi Arabia has denied that a Saudi-led coalition which since March has been carrying out air raids in Yemen carried out the attack on the wedding.
The ICRC said: "Indiscriminate air strikes and shelling have been going on in many parts of Yemen for more than six months, causing huge suffering to the civilian population".
"The volatile security situation in Yemen, coupled with the recurrent attacks on humanitarian workers, are restricting field movements and hampering the delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid", ICRC further said.
Secretary general of the Yemen Red Crescent Society, Fuad al-Makhazy, said that eight of his staff and volunteers have now been killed. The two latest victims had been volunteers with the YRCS for more than eight years.
Two Red Cross workers were gunned down in late August in Amran province, north of Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, in an attack which prompted the ICRC to suspend its operations in Yemen.
