{"id":13731,"date":"2022-01-23T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2022-01-23T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T21:32:50","slug":"saudi-airstrike-on-yemeni-rebels-held-prison-death-toll-rises-to-87-one-hospital-received-200-casualties-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/saudi-airstrike-on-yemeni-rebels-held-prison-death-toll-rises-to-87-one-hospital-received-200-casualties-msf\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi airstrike on Yemeni Rebels held Prison – Death toll rises to 87 – One Hospital Received 200 Casualties – MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Saada: Monitoring Desk – At least 87 people were killed and 266 injured, some critically, in a Saudi airstrike on a prison in Yemen’s rebel-held north, Public Health and Population Minister Taha al-Mutawakil said on Saturday.<\/h4>\n

The Houthi rebel group claimed on Friday that the Saudi-led coalition had launched a raid on territory that it controls in the northern city of Saada.<\/h4>\n

news.cgtn.com posted that<\/h4>\n

The attack, which coincided with a coalition strike on the port of Hodeida that killed three children and knocked out the impoverished country’s internet, was condemned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.<\/h4>\n
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BBC Middle East correspondent Anna Foster reports that :<\/h4>\n

Hours after the air strike, rescue workers were still pulling bodies out of the rubble, and hopes of finding survivors are fading, says BBC Middle East correspondent Anna Foster.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

The exact death toll is unclear. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) said at least 70 people were killed, though the number is expected to rise. Houthi-run television showed pictures from the scene of men clearing debris with their hands and of wounded at a local hospital. MSF said one hospital had received more than 200 casualties.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

The facility in Saada, a stronghold of the rebel Houthi movement in north-western Yemen, was hit on Friday.<\/h4>\n

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that the “escalation needs to stop”.<\/h4>\n

In a statement on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in the country denied it had carried out the air strike. The coalition also said the site was not on a list of targets to avoid that had been agreed with the UN and had not been reported by the Red Cross.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
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Saudi-led coalition forces have been fighting Houthi rebels since 2015. Tens of thousands of civilians, including more than 10,000 children, have been killed or wounded as a direct result of the fighting.<\/h4>\n
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“There are many bodies still at the scene of the air strike, many missing people,” Ahmed Mahat, MSF chief in Yemen, told AFP news agency. “It is impossible to know how many people have been killed. It seems to have been a horrific act of violence.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saada: Monitoring Desk – At least 87 people were killed and 266 injured, some critically, in a Saudi airstrike on a prison in Yemen’s rebel-held north, Public Health and Population Minister Taha al-Mutawakil said on Saturday. The Houthi rebel group claimed on Friday that the Saudi-led coalition had launched a raid on territory that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[79,132,479,2052,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}