’Up to 51 People’ Killed in Yet Another Wedding Attack by Saudi-led Warplanes in Yemen
Local Editor
Saudi-led warplanes have attacked a wedding ceremony in Yemen’s western province of Dhamar, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 30 others on Thursday.
It was the second Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni wedding party in just over a week.
The Saudi-led coalition, under mounting criticism over the civilian death toll of its bombing aggression in Yemen, denied involvement in the latest attack.
The bombing targeted a house hosting a wedding celebration in Sanban, in Dhamar province, some 100 kilometres south of Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, medics and witnesses said.
On September 28, over 100 civilians were killed after a Saudi-led airstrike struck a wedding party in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taizz, which the United Nations [UN] said may have been the single deadliest attack since March. Some days later, the UN also confirmed that the deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit the wedding in Yemen predominantly killed women and children.
The coalition also denied involvement for the attack.
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 UN.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,300 with more than 4,000 other civilians wounded in the fighting in the country that has raged for more than a year now, according to the UN recently last month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
