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An Omani aircraft landed in the Yemeni capital on Saturday to evacuate 115 of the most seriously wounded from a Saudi-led coalition strike on a funeral last weekend, a Yemeni source said.
The strike killed more than 140 people and wounded at least 525, sparking an international outcry that obliged the coalition to announce an easing of an air blockade to allow the most seriously wounded to receive treatment abroad.
The Omani aircraft also flew home to Sana’a the national negotiating team which had been stranded in the sultanate’s capital Muscat since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait in August because of the air blockade, an AFP photographer reported.
The relief flight came as the coalition released the findings of an investigation into the October 8 air strike on the funeral ceremony for the father of the Yemeni interior minister.
Oman is the only Gulf Arab state that is not part of the coalition striking Yemen since March, 2015.
Saudi Arabia began its deadly campaign against Yemen in late March 2015. The strikes were meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
About 10,000 people have been killed and over 16,000 injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
