that killed dozens of Yemeni civilians, mostly children on a school bus, calling on the world community to put pressure on the Riyadh regime and its allies to stop perpetrating more crimes in the impoverished country.In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Ministry front man, Bahram Qassemi, expressed sympathy with the families of those killed and injured in the latest Saudi airstrike, which hit the bus at a market in Yemen's northwestern province of Sa'ada earlier in the day.
Yemen's al-Masirah television network said those on the bus were a group of young students attending summer classes of the Holy Qur'an.
The Yemeni Health Ministry said at least 50 civilians, mostly children, bit the dust and around 77 others were maimed in the attack, which Qassemi described as a "war crime."
The Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...remained brazenly defiant on its new crime, calling the massacre a "legitimate action." It claimed the airstrikes were aimed at missile launchers used by Yemeni armed forces.