Irish Sunday Mirror

Horror of air strike dead in back of truck

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

Bombing scene PARENTS of 29 children killed when a Saudi-led air strike blasted a bus in Yemen had to hunt for them among corpses on the back of a truck.

One Yemeni father told how hopes his son was alive were crushed when he spotted his body half covered by a tarpaulin.

A heartbreak­ing video shows him crying: “Is this Yousif ? Oh my God!”

The Red Cross said one hospital received 29 bodies of children, and 30 injured.

UN Secretary-general António Guterres called for “an independen­t and prompt investigat­ion” into the strike on Dahyan, in rebel-held Saada.

Saudi Arabia defended Thursday’s mission as a “legitimate operation”, in retaliatio­n for a Houthi attack on its kingdom. Cheznye Emmons

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