SANAA: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called for a “prompt and impartial” probe into the air raid that killed more than 140 people and wounded more than 525 people at a funeral in Yemen. “Those responsible for the attack must be brought to justice,” he said. Meanwhile, Iran has asked the UN to help the Iranian Red Crescent make arrangements to send a plane with humanitarian supplies to Sanaa and to evacuate the wounded for treatment in hospitals in Iran. The incident risks embarrassing Riyadh’s key ally Washington, which has vehemently criticized Moscow over the heavy civilian death toll in Aleppo from Russian air raids in support of Syria’s regime. Thus, it could further sour US-Saudi ties already strained over the coalition’s military intervention, which is suspected of causing almost half of the more than 4,000 civilian deaths in Yemen’s conflict.

Source: Manila Times October 10, 2016 13:52 UTC