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Martyrdom toll from Yemen’s conflict exceeds 1,000: WHO

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) says the martyrdom toll from the ongoing conflict in Yemen has now gone beyond 1,000.

According to Press TV, on Thursday, the Geneva-based UN body said at least 1,080 people, among them 48 children and 28 women, had been martyred in the crisis-hit Arab country, and a further 4,352 people had been injured in the violence between March 19 and April 20.
A great proportion of the casualties were recorded in the capital, Sana’a, where a total of 209 people, including 21 children and five women, lost their lives. Another 936 people, including 84 children and 44 women, sustained injuries there.
A total of 191 people, including two children, were martyred in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, situated 346 kilometers south of Sana’a, while another 1,237 were injured.
The WHO toll did not distinguish between civilians and non-civilians.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed a Saudi airstrike targeting a warehouse belonging to the international aid and development organization, Oxfam, as an “apparent violation of the law of war.

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