5,000 children killed or injured in Yemen war, says UN


Unicef says the more than 5,000 children killed or injured in the violence amount to 'an average of five children every day since March 2015'. – EPA pic, January 16, 2018.

THE war in Yemen has killed or injured more than 5,000 children and left another 400,000 severely malnourished and fighting for their lives, the UN children’s agency said today

In a report unveiled in Sanaa, Unicef said nearly two million Yemeni children were out of school, a quarter of them since the conflict escalated when a Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015.


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