UN reports on cluster bombs use by Saudis in Yemen

found 29 cluster sub munitions in a village in the country’s Hajjah Province, according to media reports

 

Members of UN investigative teams have found 29 cluster sub munitions in a village in the country’s Hajjah Province, according to media reports.

Local sources earlier said that Saudi military aircraft had once again used internationally-banned cluster bombs in airstrikes on the village of al-Odair.
A spokesperson for the OHCHR said it had received “alarming information on the alleged use of cluster bombs by Saudi-led coalition forces in Hajjah.

Inspectors discovered fragments of 29 cluster bombs during a visit to the village of Al-Odair where witnesses said other villages had also been affected, with civilians stepping on un-exploded sub munitions.

Saudi Arabia has been accused of using cluster munitions in Yemen where its warplanes targeted civilians and residential areas also in the northern Sa’ada Province.

Yemeni sources insist that more than 7,500 people have since been killed and over 14,000 others injured in the campaign.