Apr 7, 2015

Yemen: 'Corpses are lying in the streets'

Around 120,000 people have been displaced from their homes since the air campaign began, according to the United Nations
Correction, 7/4/2015: A previous version of this article said the emergency surgical unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), referenced in the seventh paragraph, was in Sanaa. This was incorrect. It is in Aden.

The same paragraph referenced a UN report. The report was not from the UN. It was from IRIN. IRIN, previously part of the UN, is now an independent, non-profit media organisation.
Sanaa - A dispirited Saleh al-Wesabi, 31, sits with his legs folded in his brother's house in Dar Slim, in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, recalling when an air strike destroyed his house last weekend.
"It all began at 2:30am, when we woke up shaken by the sound of the strike," he told Al Jazeera. "The entire neighbourhood was razed to the ground; young women and children were trapped under heavy boulders."
Wesabi's wife and children sustained minor injuries, and the family fled soon after to their village in Ibb province,194km south of the capital.
Wesabi is one of about 120,000 people who have been displaced from their homes since the Saudi-led campaign of air strikes began late last month, according to the United Nations.