Yemen crush kills at least 85, leaves hundreds injuredTRAGEDY: Authorities arrested three people after eyewitnesses said gunfire near a school where people were waiting to collect handouts caused panicAt least 85 people were killed and hundreds injured in a crush at a Ramadan cash handout in Yemen yesterday in one of its worst tragedies in the nation just as optimism was growing over its civil war. People stand outside a school at the site of a stampede in Sana’a, Yemen, yesterday. They fell on me, and I got hurt,” an injured child told Al-Masirah from his hospital bed. A Houthi security official speaking on condition of anonymity told reporters that at least 85 people were killed and “more than 322” injured, 50 of them seriously. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by the war’s direct or indirect causes, and millions pushed to the brink of famine.
