An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in rebel-held northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two children, medical and military sources said.
The headmaster and two other staff members were
among those killed in the air raid in the district of Nihm, northeast of
the capital Sanaa, which also left 13 wounded, the sources said.
A medical source at Kuwait Hospital in Sanaa confirmed the casualty toll.
A government military official said the school
was hit by two missiles by mistake, accusing the Shiite Huthi rebels of
keeping armoured vehicles nearby.
The rebels' saba.ye news website said eight people had been killed and 15 wounded.
Human rights groups have repeatedly criticised
the coalition over the civilian death toll from the bombing campaign it
launched in March 2015.
In August, an air strike on a Koranic school in
Saada province, a rebel stronghold in the far north, killed 10 children
and wounded 28 other people, prompting a UN call for a swift
investigation.
But a probe commissioned by the coalition claimed
that the closest targets hit by warplanes were 10 kilometres (six
miles) away from the school.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
have called on Washington, London and Paris to stop their deliveries of
bombs and other weapons to Riyadh because of concerns over civilian
casualties.
More than 7,000 people have been killed in Yemen
since the coalition launched its intervention, many of them civilians
killed in its air strikes.
Washington has scaled back its logistics and
intelligence support for the coalition's air war because of concerns
about its targeting.
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