U.N. secretary general condemns deadly air strikes in Yemen


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reacts during a news conference at Rosenbad in Stockholm, Sweden April 23, 2018. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomerry/via REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antَnio Guterres strongly condemned on Monday air strikes on a wedding party in Yemen that killed at least 50 civilians, his spokesman said. 

Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 20 people attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday, residents and medical sources said.

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