ICRC Confirms Its Regular Visits to Prison in Dhamar Targeted by US-Saudi Aggression

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday it has sent a team to a prison in Dhamar province, which has been targeted by the US-Saudi aggression earlier, to provide emergency health care.

“An ICRC team carrying both urgent medical supplies that can treat up to 100 critically wounded persons and 200 body bags to be donated is on its way to Dhamar province Yemen following air strikes which are reported to have killed or wounded dozens of detainees,” the organisation said.

“We have visited detainees in this location before, as we do in other places as part of our work,” said Franz Rauchenstein, head of delegation for the ICRC in Yemen.

“We are taking these reports extremely seriously. I am on my way to Dhamar Yemen to assess the situation,” he said on Twitter.

Early Sunday, the US-Saudi aerial aggression launched seven raids on a building used  for war prisoners north of Dhamar province. More than 150 people were killed and injured in the massacre, while the process of recovering victims continues.