Iran deplores Saudi airstrike on Yemeni hotel

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News ID: 12355
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 21:32 - 23 August 2017
TEHRAN, August 23 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi categorically condemned Saudi airstrike near a hotel in Arhab City, Yemen, which left dozens killed and injured, and urged the UN and international organizations to deal with killing civilians in such attacks.

Iran deplores Saudi airstrike on Yemen ArhabTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “Intensifying attacks on residential areas and civilian targets, hindering international organizations’ access in aid process mean violation of human rights principles and rules,” he said.

He also called in the UN and influential parties in Yemeni crisis to increase efforts to end attacks on Yemen as soon as possible and take required steps to protect security and safety of civilians, especially women and children.

Dozens of people are feared killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a small hotel north of the Yemeni capital, the latest mass casualty event in a war that is now in its third year.

News agencies quoted local officials and aid groups as saying at least 35 bodies had been pulled from the rubble of the hotel in Arhab, on the northern outskirts of Sana’a.

Officials and witnesses told the Associated Press that the death toll was 60 and that the majority of those killed were rebels. Witnesses told Reuters that the hotel building had totally collapsed.

Aid workers said rescue personnel were still sifting through the rubble and the death toll was likely to rise.

 

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iran ، yemen ، attack
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