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Incident on 11 May 2015 [+] Print this page

Location: a weapons cache in the Mount Nuqum neighbourhood, Amanat Al Asimah [+]

Country: Yemen [+]

Violation types: Violation of international humanitarian law [+]

Location


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This incident took place in a weapons cache in the Mount Nuqum neighbourhood, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen [+]

Description


According to Amnesty International: "Many of the other civilian victims in the hospitals Amnesty International visited were injured by secondary explosions when attacks by Saudi Arabian-led coalition aircraft struck a weapons cache in the Mount Nuqum neighbourhood on 11 May. [...] Amnesty International interviewed four residents of Mount Nuqum who witnessed the attack and seven others who were injured in secondary explosions caused by the air strikes, including four children and two women. One of the women interviewed said that her son was killed in the same blast that had injured her. Around 40 people were killed in the strike according to the Ministry of Health, although Amnesty International could not independently verify this figure. Nearly 140 people injured in the attack were admitted for treatment at al-Thawra and Kuwait hospitals according to hospital staff and records." [+]

Perpetrator units

Name Other Names Classification
Operation Restoring Hope [+] Arab Coalition
Arab Coalition Forces
Arab Coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen
Gulf Arab coalition
Hope Restoration Operation
Joint Forces
Operation Renewal of Hope
Operation Storm of Resolve
Saudi-led Arab Coalition
Saudi-led Coalition
coalition forces
operations Renewal of Hope
Air Force [+]
Army [+]
Joint Operation [+]
Military [+]
Navy [+]

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
28 May 2015 Amnesty International Yemen: Scores of civilians killed and injured by anti-aircraft fire and airstrikes on weapons depots 16 March 2022