Many dead in airstrike on refugee camp in north Yemen

At least 45 people have been killed in north Yemen after an airstrike hit a camp for internally displaced people, whilst a Saudi-led coalition continued to strike Houthi targets around the country for a fifth day.

The humanitarian agency, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said on Monday that the Al-Mazraq camp in the northwestern Hajjah province was bombed.
"It was an air strike," Pablo Marco, the manager of the MSF programme in the Middle East said, adding that dozens more Yemenis were injured.

"People in Al-Mazraq camp have been living in very harsh conditions since 2009, and now they have suffered the consequences of an airstrike," Marco said. 
 
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also said the camp had been hit.

Houthi-run al-Masirah TV showed blurred footage from the aftermath of the attack purporting the show the bodies of the victims, which included women and children.
However, Yemen's foreign minister blamed the Houthis for the strike, denying any link to Saudi-led military operations.

Riyadh Yasin said the explosion on the camp was not from Arab coalition forces but by "artillery strikes" by the Houthis.
The camp, which recieved 500 new families over the past two days, had been housing Yemenis displaced by the conflict between Houthi fighters and the central government since 2009................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/dead-airstrike-refugee-camp-north-yemen-150330131111582.html
30/3/15
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