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UNICEF: At Least 115 Children Martyred in Yemen since March 26

UNICEF: At Least 115 Children Martyred in Yemen since March 26
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At least 115 children have been martyred and 172 maimed in the violence raging in Yemen since Saudi-led air aggression began on March 26, the UN children's agency said Friday.

UNICEF: At Least 115 Children Martyred in Yemen since March 26

"We believe that these are conservative figures," UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac told reporters in Geneva, saying at least 64 of the children martyred between March 26 and April 20 were victims of air strikes.

The UN agency said another 26 children had been martyred by unexploded ordnance and mines, 19 by gunshots, three by shelling and three by "unverified causes related to the conflict".

Seventy-one of the children martyred in the north of the country, UNICEF said.
The World Health Organization said Thursday the overall death toll in Yemen had topped 1,000, and the UN's human rights agency said Friday at least 551 of the people who died were civilians.

"There are hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen who continue to live in the most dangerous circumstances, many waking up scared in the middle of the night to the sounds of bombing and gunfire," UNICEF representative in Yemen Julien Harneis said in a statement.

"The number of child casualties shows clearly how devastating this conflict continues to be for the country's children," he said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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