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Yemen: 38 die at wedding party in Saudi coalition’s air strikes

THE Saudi-led military coalition bombed a wedding party in Yemen yesterday, killing at least 38 people.

The latest slaughter of civilians in the US-backed war to reinstall President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi happened in the village of Al-Wahga near the Bab al-Mandab strait at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Yemeni security officials said that at least 40 people were also wounded in the two air strikes. Many of the victims were women and children.

The UN estimates that the bombing campaign and invasion aimed at overthrowing de-facto president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his allies in the army and the Houthi rebels has killed at least 2,100 civilians.

Hassan Boucenine of Doctors Without Borders said yesterday that only seven out of 21 hospitals in Taiz province, where the attack took place, remained open, that they were “totally overwhelmed” and had run out of essential medication.

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