Yemen, Sep 2: The United Nations (UN) special representative to Yemen, Martin Griffith, has criticized a Saudi–UAE-drove alliance assault on a prison kept running by Houthi revolts and approached the military coalition to probe the dangerous airstrikes.
Griffith’s announcement late on Sunday came as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated in excess of 100 individuals were “presumed killed” in the besieging in Dhamar city in western Yemen.
Houthi authorities said at any rate 60 individuals had passed on in the assault overnight on Sunday. Handfuls more were injured.
Griffiths considered the episode a “tragedy”.
“The human cost of this war is unbearable,” he said. “We need it to stop … I hope the Coalition will launch an inquiry into this incident. Accountability needs to prevail.”
Salvage laborers kept on pulling the dead and injured from the rubble at the site of the assault north of the city of Dhamar. Houthi authorities cited by Al Masirah TV said the office, in the past a junior college, housed around 170 detainees of war.
The assault was the deadliest so far this year by the alliance, as indicated by the Yemen Data Project, a database following the war. The alliance, which interceded in Yemen’s polite war in 2015, has confronted global analysis for air attacks that have hit schools, emergency clinics and wedding parties, executing a great many Yemeni regular citizens.
Meanwhile, the Red Cross spokesperson Jason Straziuso told Al-Jazeera ICRC’s group delivered several medical supplies to hospitals where wounded were taken to.
Straziuso said the ICRC had “a forensics professional on-site who will be helping this week with dead body management”.
“It’s clear that this building was full of about 170 detainees,” he said. “Warring parties should not be targeting people who are not a part of the fight – in this case, the detainees.”
The UAE-Saudi led coalition confirmed airstrikes on Dhamar but stated it had only targeted a Houthi camp storing missiles and drones. It also said it had taken preventive and security measures to safeguard civilians in the region and the attack complied with the international law.
However, Houthi rebels dismissed the alliance’s claims.