Saudi Strikes Kill Four, Including MSF Ambulance Driver In Yemen
KABUL: (MEP) At least five people have been killed including an ambulance driver working for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in air strikes by Saudi-led warplanes on northern Yemen, the relief agency said Friday.
In addition, at least 35 others are wounded as the strikes hit the villages of Dhahyan, Baqim and Jawf on Thursday afternoon in Saada province, said MSF spokeswoman Malak Shaher.
The ambulance driver, who worked for MSF and the Jamhouri public hospital in Sa’ada was attacked while he was on his way to one of the bombing sites, Shaher told AFP, without elaborating.
“Air strikes in 3 villages in Saada left 5 dead and 35 injured. MSF & Ministry of health ambulance driver was killed,” MSF Yemen wrote on its Twitter account.
However, Yemen’s official Saba News Agency quoted a medical source as saying that the death toll from the Thursday’s air attacks on Dhahyan rose to 26 people, most of them medics, after seven people succumbed to their injuries. The source added that Yemen’s al-Masirah TV cameraman was also among the dead.
Earlier this month, MSF said one of its clinics in Saada was targeted by strikes that killed at least four people.
