YEMEN Press Agency

Victims toll of coalition’s air raid on capital Sanaa rises to 47: Health Ministry

SANAA, May 16 (YPA) –  Ministry of Public Health and Population on Thursday said that the death toll of Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a residential neighborhood at the intersection of Rabat and Raqas streets in capital Sanaa  raised to 6, including four children and two civilians, and 41 wounded, mostly children and women.

Rescue teams are still recovering the victims from the rubble and the number of victims is expected to increase, the spokesman of the ministry said.

The spokesman pointed out that the victims of the coalition raid were transferred to a number of hospitals in the capital.

In more than four years, the coalition has used to commit crimes and to target Yemeni civilians, especially after every attack it receives by the Yemeni army.