Yemen: Saudi-led coalition airstrike hits Yemen funeral killing over 140 people
A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a funeral hall packed with thousands of mourners in Yemen’s capital Saturday, killing over 140 people and wounding more than 525 in one of the deadliest single attacks of the country’s civil war, a U.N. official said.
Saudi Arabia announced early Sunday it would launch an investigation into “reports about the regrettable and painful bombing” in Sanaa, without immediately acknowledging that its coalition battling rebels in Yemen is the only force with air power in the conflict.
It is the latest in a string of bombings by the coalition that have struck hospitals, markets and other places civilians congregate.
“The place has been turned into a lake of blood,” said one rescuer, Murad Tawfiq.