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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 11:20 AM Sep 2015

UPDATE 1-At least 27 dead in air strike on Yemen wedding party - local official, residents

(Reuters) - At least 27 people, most of them women and children, were killed on Monday in an air strike on a wedding party in southwestern Yemen, a local official and residents said.

A local resident said 12 women, eight children and seven men died in the air strike, which struck two tents in the village of al-Wahijah, near the Red Sea port city of Al-Mokha, where a wedding for a local man affiliated with Yemen's dominant Houthi group. A local official put the death toll at 30.

Residents described mutilated bodies from the attack. A number of other casualties were rushed to a nearby hospital, they said.

A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/yemen-security-idINL5N11Y2IW20150928

It is good to know we are not the only country that commits this sort of atrocity.

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UPDATE 1-At least 27 dead in air strike on Yemen wedding party - local official, residents (Original Post) bemildred Sep 2015 OP
Oh no not again!! haikugal Sep 2015 #1
The Saudi slaughter in Yemen is going as unnoticed in America as Saudi general social butchery. Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #2
What can one say...the Wedding Parties Slaughter Repeated.... KoKo Sep 2015 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. The Saudi slaughter in Yemen is going as unnoticed in America as Saudi general social butchery.
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 11:46 AM
Sep 2015

Although it is understandable.....why reflect on one's own obvious and massive and transparent hypocrisy?

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
3. What can one say...the Wedding Parties Slaughter Repeated....
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 08:48 PM
Sep 2015

And...the war goes on and on. This Time its the Saudi's doing dirty work for their interests.

More ISIS Recruits as it goes on and on....

Obama's speech to the UN Today showed a "Passing it Off" along with some other things that I found disturbing....but....it all goes on...until it doesn't.

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