Yemen civilian death toll mounts, as families flee Saudi-led air strikes

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Yemen civilian death toll mounts, as families flee Saudi-led air strikes

Ruth Pollard - Middle East Correspondent - March 31, 2015 - 5:03PM

At least 40 people were killed on Monday and 200 wounded when an air strike hit al-Mazraq Camp for displaced people the country’s north.


Beirut: Five days into the Saudi Arabia-led aerial bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the civilian death toll is mounting and hundreds of families are on the run, fleeing the nightly attacks that have shaken the already struggling country.

At least 40 people were killed on Monday and 200 wounded when an air strike hit al-Mazraq Camp for displaced people the country's north, International Organisation for Migration spokesman Joel Millman said.

It appears the target was a nearby base for the Iran-backed Zaidi Shiite Houthi rebels, who have controlled much of northern Yemen since September.

Home to about 5000 people who had fled the capital Sanaa after years of fighting between Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government, al-Mazraq Camp, established in 2001, provides shelter to some of Yemen's most vulnerable people, many of them malnourished and in desperate need of help....


Full article:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/yemen-civilian-death-toll-mounts-as-families-flee-saudiled-air-strikes-20150331-1mbjbd.html

[riderinthestorm]

1. War crime. The Saudis HATE the Shia Houthis and would kill all of them as infidels

without a second thought.

I don't buy the line that they were aiming at a rebel base. Not one bit. Their goal is to sow the seeds of terror just as they have been doing by funding ISIS.



Such a despicable regime.