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AFP
Dubai
Two international rights groups on Monday condemned an attack on a prison in Yemen’s besieged city of Taez that left six women and a child dead.
The internationally-recognised government has accused Iran-aligned Huthi rebels of carrying out Sunday’s attack.
The rebels targeted the female section of the prison with mortar shells, according to the government’s Saba news agency. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said its hospital in Taez received the casualties.
“MSF-supported Al-Thawra Hospital in Taez city received the bodies of six women and one child who were killed in an attack on the central prison in Taez,” it said on Twitter. The government said 28 other female prisoners were wounded. “Taez citizens continue to suffer from the ongoing violence in the sixth year of the protracted conflict in Yemen,” MSF said.
“These attacks on civilians, whether indiscriminate or targeted, are unjustifiable breaches of international humanitarian law.”
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