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Air strike on Yemen prison leaves at least 70 dead
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SANAA, 22 January 2022, (TON): At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison and at least three children died in a separate bombardment as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation of violence.
The Huthi rebels released gruesome video footage showing bodies in the rubble and mangled corpses from the prison attack, which levelled buildings at the jail in their northern heartland of Saada.
Further south in the port city of Hodeida, the children died when air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a telecommunications facility as they played nearby, Save the Children said. Yemen also suffered a country-wide internet blackout.
Save the Children said “the children were reportedly playing on a nearby football field when missiles struck.”
The UN Human Rights Office said the reports of intensifying coalition air strikes on populated areas were deeply shocking.
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