The Saudi-led coalition admits it has attacked a neighborhood in Yemeni capital San claiming it was “by mistake”.
The coalition airstrike hit a residential area in the south of Sana on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring many others. Two days earlier, another raid by the Saudi-led aggression on a hotel in Sanaa’s Arhab. At least 30 people including children and women were martyred in Wednesday strike.
Following the reports about casualties among civilians, the coalition announced that it had “launched a probe into the incident.”
“The technical mistake led to an unintentional incident because of Houthi who set their military objects in residential neighborhoods, using the civilians as human shields,” Turki Maliki, the spokesman of the coalition said Saturday in a statement, referring to Ansarullah revolutionary movement.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Source: Agencies
