At least 10 children were killed and dozens more injured in an airstrike on a school in Saada reportedly by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. Yemeni security and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media, say the strike killed and wounded some 20 of the hospital’s staff and patients.
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Another 28 children were wounded in the raids which occurred on Saturday in the town of Haydan, in Saada province, said the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Jets from the Saudi-led coalition backing Mr Hadi carried out strikes around Sanaa during the MPs’ meeting on Saturday, continuing a stepped-up air campaign following the suspension of the talks.
The war and airstrikes in Yemen have since killed over 6,400 people, mostly civilians.
The Houthis and their allies in General People’s Congress (GPC) led by former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, control the capital city of Sana’a.
After a three-month pause, it resumed raids on Tuesday, less than 72 hours after United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed announced the collapse of peace talks.
The factory is near a military equipment maintenance centre targeted by the coalition.
The Huthi rebels overran Sanaa in September 2014 and then fought their way into other parts of Yemen, forcing Hadi and his government to seek exile in Saudi Arabia.
Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Assiri has said the weekend strikes hit a Houthi training camp and killed rebel fighters.
In March of a year ago, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
The coalition, which last week released the report of an investigation into claims of civilian deaths in previous strikes, did not immediately comment.
It found the coalition guilty of “mistakenly” hitting a residential compound and an MSF-run hospital, but accused the rebels of having used the hospital – also in Haydan – as a hideout.
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Doctors Without Borders, which is known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, confirmed the casualty figures, and noted that the victims were all between 8 and 15 years old.
