It should be an event charitybut it has become one carnage. At least I am 85 people were killed in the scrum during the distribution of Money for the public, organized by a group of merchants in the capital of Yemen, Sanaacontrolled by the rebels Houthi. Over 300 injured. inciting panic among the neighborhood crowd Baby El Yemen gathered in front of a center distribution – according to witnesses quoted by the Guardian – they fired the shots into the air Houthi in an apparent attempt to get a handle on the situation. One of them would have struck an electrical line and caused an explosion that caused panic among those present and the crowd. “Between dead there are women and children” and approx 50 wounded Count me in serious illnesssaid the security source, who asked to remain anonymous. The mob was created in the Old Town if hundreds of poor gathered at the event organized by merchants without coordination with local authorities, according to the Interior Ministry Houthi. The ministry said dozens of injured people were taken to nearby hospitals. The Ministry of the Interior managed by Houthi He stated that he had arrested two organizers and that an investigation was ongoing.
The Yementhe poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula is being devastated by 2014 from a conflict between houthisIran-backed rebels and the pro-government forces backed by a military coalition led by its neighbor Saudi Arabia. In the last few days the Government hey rebels conducted a major exchange of nearly 900 prisoners amid growing hopes for peace amid the conflict that has plunged the country into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. A Saudi delegation followed last week, accompanied by Omani mediators Sanaa for talks aimed at revitalizing the truce and laying the foundations for a more lasting truce. in the country where the United States They have been waging a merciless war against the local wing for years Al Qaeda in the central-eastern regions, during these nine years of war in the central and western provinces, afterU.N. Hundreds of thousands of people are Death and different a million inhabitants They were forced to leave their homes.
(in the photo objects and clothing left behind by the crowd during the escape)