The country’s dominant Houthi group says the attack was by the Saudi-led coalition.
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Saudi Arabia said the school it targeted was a “training camp” for child soldiers, suggesting it was not the coalition’s responsibility that children were killed.
Mr Shaher said: “We received 10 dead children and 28 wounded, all under the age of 15, who are victims of airstrikes”.
Meanwhile, the United States has recently approved the sale of more than 130 Abrams tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment worth about $1.15 billion to Saudi Arabia, to further boost the Saudi war machine against the Arabian Peninsula country.
Rights groups and U.N. agencies say that more than 9,000 people have been killed during the conflict, which pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of starvation.
Human Rights Watch later examined the bomb fragments found at the site and determined they came from a “US-made satellite-guided bomb”.
More than three months of peace talks brokered by the United Nations ended August 6, and coalition airstrikes, which had paused for five months, resumed nearly immediately, along with reports of civilian casualties.
The internationally recognized government-in-exile, led by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, considers that body illegitimate.
The militants have since repeatedly withdrawn from and then returned to Zinjibar and Jaar, the capital of Abyan and the province’s second largest city.
Coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri denied targeting a school, instead accusing Houthi clan supporters of de-facto president Ali Abdullah Saleh of using “children as recruits”.
Al-Qaida seized both Zinjibar and Jaar previous year, exploiting the chaos of Yemen’s civil war, which pits an array of pro-government forces against Shiite Houthi rebels. The Houthi-held Saba news agency also reported the airstrike.
The Arab coalition launched its air war against the Houthis on March 26, 2015.
In June, the United Nations placed the Saudi coalition on a blacklist of states and armed groups that kill and maim children in war.
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In Saudi Arabia, the civil defence agency announced that five foreign residents were wounded in shelling from Yemen Saturday in the Jazan border region, without giving their nationalities.
