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Deadly air strike hits market in Yemen
[THEGUARDIAN] A Saudi air strike appears to have struck a livestock market in southern Yemen, killing more than 40 people -- one of the deadliest bombings of a campaign that has now lasted three months.The blast happened while civilians were trading in the market in the Fayyoush district of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that the corpse count was at least 45, with more than 50 maimed. "I came right after the kaboom and saw dozens of dead strewn about and a sea of blood, while the maimed were being evacuated to nearby hospitals," resident Abu-Ali al-Azibi told the AP. "[There was] blood from people mixed with that of the sheep and other livestock at the market." A Saudi-led coalition launched an air offensive in March after Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels, who are backed by Iran, took control of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and moved on the city of Aden to the south, forcing the Saudi-backed president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi into exile. That month, more than two dozen people died in an attack on a refugee camp and 46 people were killed and hundreds maimed in a raid in April on the Faj Attan district in Sana'a. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-07 |
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