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August 14, 2018

Thousands Attend Funeral of 40 Yemeni Children Killed in Saudi Airstrike
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In Yemen, thousands of mourners gathered in the city of Saada Monday for
funerals of the 51 people-including 40 children-who were killed in an
airstrike on a school bus last week. 
The airstrike was carried out by the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition.
Images posted online suggest a U.S.-built Mark 82 bomb was used in the
airstrike. Mourners decried the attack on schoolchildren.

Mohamed Galhem: "The crimes that were committed by the coalition against
children in Dahyan are unprecedented crimes that have never happened
before-crimes that will not be forgiven by history or humanity. A crime
that has never happened to anyone before, not the Sikhs, the Indians nor
the Bengals. A crime committed by the dirty hands of al-Saud and
al-Nahyan against the children of Yemen."



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