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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 01, 2017, 04:37:44 pm

Title: Saudi-led air strike kills 26 civilians in Yemen hotel: Report
Post by: TomSea on November 01, 2017, 04:37:44 pm
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Saudi-led air strike kills 26 civilians in Yemen hotel: Report
Houthi-run news agency blames 'US-backed Saudi aggression' for the attack
(http://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_article_page/public/main-images/Saadah-Yemen.JPG)
The air strike killed at least 26 civilians, residents of a budget hotel (screengrab)
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MEE and agencies
Wednesday 1 November 2017 10:17 UTC

An air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 26 people at a hotel and an adjoining market in Yemen's northern Saadah province on Wednesday, according to medics and witnesses at the scene.

The attack which struck the Sahar district of the vast territory, on the border with Saudi Arabia, demolished the budget hotel and reduced market stalls outside to a heap of twisted sheet metal.

Medics gathered corpses and laid them in a group.

Read more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-led-air-strike-kills-26-civilians-yemen-hotel-report-1192390748