Local Editor
Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee shared images showing fragments of a US-made 500-pound MK-82 bomb at the site where the Saudi-led coalition struck a bus full of children last Thursday.
The airstrike on the Dahyan area in Yemen’s northern Saad’a province killed 51 civilians, most of them children, and injuring at least 79 others.
Shortly after the attack, a spokesperson for US Central Command Josh Jacques, remarked that “we may never know if the munition [used] was one that the US sold to them [the Saudis]”.
Despite repeated calls by rights groups to halt arms supplies to Riyadh, the Pentagon has sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Saudi-led coalition.
The coalition, which groups a number of Arab states including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, launched its military campaign against Yemen in March 2015.
The conflict has since killed tens of thousands and left Yemen facing the worst humanitarian crisis in generations.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
