Air raid kills 45 at Yemen displaced camp
An air strike killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen yesterday, aid workers said, as Arab warplanes bombard rebels around the country.
The International Organization for Migration said 45 internally displaced people had been killed and 65 wounded at the Al-Mazrak camp in Hajja province.
IOM spokesman Joel Millman told AFP that the organisation had 75 staff on hand assisting the victims.
Earlier Doctors Without Borders said 15 dead bodies and 30 wounded were taken to a hospital where it operates near the Al-Mazrak camp.
"It was an air strike," said MSF's Middle East programme manager Pablo Marco.
The Al-Mazrak camp has since 2009 been housing Yemenis displaced by the conflict between northern Huthi rebels and the central government.
Marco said 500 new families had arrived at the camp over the past two days.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition has been pounding rebel positions in Yemen since early Thursday.
It has vowed to keep up the raids until the Iran-backed rebels abandon their insurrection against President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled to Riyadh.
Warplanes carried out a fifth night of air strikes around the capital Sanaa, an AFP correspondent reported.
Positions held by the Huthi rebels and soldiers of the renegade Republican Guard overlooking the presidential palace were believed to have been targeted.
A Republican Guard camp in south Sanaa was also hit, witnesses said.
In the area around Marib, 140 kilometres (90 miles) east of Sanaa, radar facilities and surface-to-air missile batteries were targeted, local officials said.
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