460 civilians killed, injured in coalition bombing on Shabwa: Health Bureau

SHABWA, Dec. 29 (YPA) – About 235 civilians, including 9 children and 14 women have been killed and 225 others wounded, including 8 children and 20 woman, as a result of the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes and its tools’ bombing on some districts of Shabwa province.

Director General of the Health Office of the province, Dr. Jalal Al-Bahri, said in a press statement on Wednesday that the coalition committed horrific crimes in the province.

“We used to receive victims and wounded people in hospitals with their scattered and charred remains, who were targeted by the coalition, either in homes and roads,” Al-Bahri added.
He pointed out the need to support by Sanaa government to guarantee providing the necessary services and health care to patients from Shabwa sons.

For his part, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Talat Al-Sharjabi, said over 28,000 Shabwa residents have been displaced from their homes and villages, distributing among 14 provinces, most of them in Bayda.

Al-Sharjabi pointed out that “the displaced people of Shabwa are suffer greatly and facing the burdens of a difficult life under the conditions of the continued siege imposed by the coalition and its disastrous effects.

He called on the United Nations and its affiliated organizations working in Yemen to expand its humanitarian activities to face the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and dealing with it as a humanitarian perspective.

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