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Saudi-led coalition bombs Yemen prison, scores killed

2019-09-02

[DAWN] Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwest 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...
hit a prison complex, killing scores of people, Yemen's Iran's Houthi sock puppets

...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
movement and a Red Thingy official said on Sunday.

The Sunni Moslem coalition, which has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthis for over four years in Yemen, said it destroyed a site storing drones and missiles in Dhamar.

Franz Rauchenstein, head of the International Committee of the Red Thingy delegation in Yemen, said after visiting the prison complex and hospitals on Sunday that a "safe presumption is that over 100 had been killed".

The Houthi health ministry earlier said at least 60 bodies were pulled from the rubble at the detention centre, which officials said housed 170 prisoners.

"There are three buildings hit and the building where the detainees were located, most of them or the majority has been killed," Rauchenstein told Rooters by telephone.

"The prisoners in that facility were prisoners that we had visited in relation to the conflict."

He said the Yemeni Red Islamic Thingy Society was still trying to retrieve bodies and that around 50 injured people had been taken to hospital.

Residents told Rooters there had been six air strikes.

"The explosions were strong and shook the city," a resident said. "Afterwards ambulance sirens could be heard until dawn."

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