9 October 2016 - 18:09
Yemen's ex-president urges mobilization against Saudi

Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh called Sunday for mobilization along the border with Saudi Arabia to avenge deadly air strikes on a funeral blamed on a Saudi-led coalition.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Saleh, who stepped down in 2012 following nationwide protests that have defected and sided with protesters, who overran the Yemeni capital in September 2014.

"We should avenge our casualties... those killed in army bases as well as in markets, including heinous massacres, and the greatest of those is the massacre of the (funeral) hall," which was struck on Saturday.

More than 140 people were killed and at least 525 others were wounded in air raids on a funeral hall in Sanaa.

The Saudi-led coalition has pledged to probe the strikes, while UN chief Ban Ki-Moon urged an "impartial" investigation into the attack.

The coalition has been repeatedly criticized over the civilian casualties in its campaign in support of Forces loyal to Yemen’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi against the freedom loving people and peace seekers of Yemen, which began in March 2015.

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