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Yemen: Dozens killed after Saudi-led coalition airstrike hits school bus *GRAPHIC*
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09.08.2018
Dozens of blood-covered children were transported to a local hospital in the Yemeni province of Saada on Thursday, after a school bus was hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Dahyan.
Footage show children who were transported to the hospital, where they were treated for injuries of varying degrees of severity.
According to reports, the airstrike killed dozens of people, many of whom were children, when it hit a school bus travelling to a summer camp in the Houthi-held city of Dahyan, north of Yemen.
The International Committee of the Red Crescent (ICRC) in Yemen confirmed the attack immediately after the incident in a tweet stating: "scores killed, even more injured, most under the age of 10."
The coalition have since declared the attack as a legitimate military action which adhered to International Humanitarian Law and its Customary Rules.
The official Saudi Press Agency reported the official spokesperson of the Coalition, Colonel Turki AlMalki, as saying: "The Coalition will take all necessary measures against the terrorist, criminal acts of the terrorist Iranian-Houthi militia, such as recruiting child soldiers, throwing them in battlefields and using them as tools and covers to their terrorist acts."
Footage show children who were transported to the hospital, where they were treated for injuries of varying degrees of severity.
According to reports, the airstrike killed dozens of people, many of whom were children, when it hit a school bus travelling to a summer camp in the Houthi-held city of Dahyan, north of Yemen.
The International Committee of the Red Crescent (ICRC) in Yemen confirmed the attack immediately after the incident in a tweet stating: "scores killed, even more injured, most under the age of 10."
The coalition have since declared the attack as a legitimate military action which adhered to International Humanitarian Law and its Customary Rules.
The official Saudi Press Agency reported the official spokesperson of the Coalition, Colonel Turki AlMalki, as saying: "The Coalition will take all necessary measures against the terrorist, criminal acts of the terrorist Iranian-Houthi militia, such as recruiting child soldiers, throwing them in battlefields and using them as tools and covers to their terrorist acts."
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