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2 killed in strike on Yemen workshop

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a sewing workshop killed at least two people and wounded 15 in the rebel-held Yemeni capital yesterday, the owner said.

鈥淭wo employees, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed and 15 others wounded in the overnight air raid,鈥 Faisal al-Musaabi said.

A search was under way for another employee still buried under the rubble of the building in the east of Sanaa, he added.

The coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against Iran-backed rebels across Yemen since March.

The rebels, who have controlled Sanaa since September 2014, reported a higher death toll of 11 employees killed and four others wounded in the strike on the workshop, according to their sabanews.net website.

The United Nations says more than 6,100 people have been killed in Yemen鈥檚 conflict since the coalition began its raids, about half of them civilians.

Yesterday, Human Rights Watch accused the Saudi-led coalition of using US-supplied cluster bombs in Yemen, causing civilian casualties.

鈥淪audi Arabia and its coalition partners, as well as their US supplier, are blatantly disregarding the global standard that says cluster munitions should never be used under any circumstances,鈥 said HRW鈥檚 arms director Steve Goose.

One type of air-dropped cluster munition used by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the US-manufactured CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon, has 鈥渉armed civilians in at least two attacks,鈥 Goose said.

鈥淭he evidence raises serious questions about compliance with US cluster munition policy and export rules,鈥 he added.

Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates 鈥 a key member of the coalition 鈥 announced that one of its soldiers taking part in the Yemen war was killed yesterday and another was wounded.

A Yemeni civilian also died, a Yemeni military source said.


 

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