Red Cross evacuates 44 wounded from Yemen's Dammaj


  • World
  • Saturday, 09 Nov 2013

DOHA (Reuters) - The Red Cross evacuated 44 people wounded in clashes between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim fighters in the Yemeni town of Dammaj on Friday, the second such operation in under a week, the humanitarian agency said.

It also rescued a woman who was eight months pregnant, her two children and two other children accompanying an injured parent, said Cedric Schweizer, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

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