Ex-Yemeni President Escapes Assassination Attempt

Rasa - Media outlets reported that former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has escaped attempted assassination by the Saudi-backed forces.

News ID: 423195

Date: 03 September 2016 - 19:24

RNA - Sada Aden news website claimed that similar to the 2011 assassination attempt, Saleh survived again after he was attacked in al-Saleh mosque in Sana'a.

A source close to Saleh told the website that the former president's bodyguards could foil the attack.

8 people, including the mosque's prayers leader, were arrested after the assassination attempt, Sada Aden reported.

Yemen is facing a chaotic situation as the Saudi military has been pounding Yemen since March 2015 to undermine Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the former fugitive President Mansour Hadi.

Over 10,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Riyadh’s military aggression which lacks any international mandate.

The UN human rights office said the Saudi military is using cluster bombs against residential areas in Yemen in violation of international law, blaming the Riyadh regime for most of the civilian casualties in its impoverished southern neighbor.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the United States in May for selling cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom had used various types of US-made cluster munitions in its war against Yemen despite evidence of mounting civilian casualties.

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