At least 79 people died and 110 were injured in a stampede in Yemen’s capitalduring a cash distribution for charity, health officials of the Houthi rebels who control part of the country said.
At least “79 people died and 110 were injured” after the accident, which took place in the Bab al Yemen area, said a health official in the capital Sana’a, a toll confirmed by two other hierarchical officials in the sector, the agency of press reported. AFP extension.
The dead and wounded were taken to nearby hospitals and people responsible for charitable distribution were taken into police custody, the interior ministry said in a statement released by the rebel Saba news agency. Authorities have called for an investigation into the incidents.
In a video published by Al Masira, a crowd can be seen trapped among people pressing to get out in one of the streets of the old city of Sana’a.
The ministry did not provide an exact toll, but stressed that “dozens of people died in a stampede during a random distribution of cash by some traders”.
The deputy head of Al Thawra hospital told the same outlet that he had received 78 bodies in his center alone, so the number of deaths was estimated be superioras more corpses reached other hospitals in Sana’a.
Yemen has been at war since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized the capital, triggering intervention the following year by a Saudi-led coalition to prop up the internationally recognized government.
This conflict has caused what the UN describes as one of the worst humanitarian tragedies.
According to this organization, more than two-thirds of Yemen’s 21.7 million inhabitants live below the poverty line.
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Source: Clarin
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