Coalition used cluster bombs in hitting horse stables in Sanaa: Military official

SANAA, March 31 (YPA) – Director of the Military College Brigadier General Mohammed Saleh Shaizer on Tuesday said that Saudi-led coalition aircraft used internationally-prohibited cluster bombs in bombing the stables of the college on Monday.

Shaizer affirmed that “there are unexploded objects, left over from the bombing remnants, which are still present in the stables of horses, to indicate the magnitude of the crime.”

“The aggression coalition warplanes after 1:00 pm on Monday waged three raids on the stables of horses, launching four rockets in the first raid, four missiles in the second, and two missiles in the third raid, all of them directly targeted hangers that harbor horses,” Shaizer elaborated.

He indicated that the raids resulted in the killing of the horse trainer Mahdi al-Raimi and the injuring of two horsemen, as well as the killing of 70 horses and the injuring of more than 90 others.

Medical personnel are working to extract shrapnel from wounded horses with help of many veterinarians, he added.

According to Shaizer, the college worked to transfer the horses from the destroyed stables to a nearby site and to speed up bringing food and medicine for the horses after the warehouse of food and feed was destroyed by the raids.

YPA