(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Deputy director of the Al-Jamhoury hospital reported that the number of wounded, as a result of the US-Saudi aerial aggression attack on a wedding ceremony at the Bani Qais district, is over the capacity of the Hospital in Hajjah governorate.
A wedding ceremony in Yemen's has been targeted by Saudi airstrikes as the kingdom continues with its relentless war on the impoverished country.
Latest reports suggest as many as 20 people lost their lives and 40 others sustained injuries during the airstrike in Hajjah Province.
"We opened a field hospital to receive victims, and we appealed to the citizens to donate blood," he said.
The deputy director pointed out that there are large numbers of victims lots of them still under the rubble. Ambulance crews could not reach the scene of the crime because of the continued flight intermittent, a state of emergency health was declared.
The Saudi jets also carried out raids on ambulances transporting the casualties to local hospitals.
For his part, the director of the Health Office in Hajjah governorate stated that the crime of brutal aggression against citizens at a wedding in the Beni Qais district came hours after another crime that wiped out a whole family in Midi.
A spokesman of the Ministry of Health said in a phone call with Al-Masirah that Al-Jamhoury hospital in Hajjah declared a state of emergency, the health situation is very critical in the province.
Earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif aid that Saudi Arabia has not been able to bring the people of Yemen to their knees even with the use of "beautiful US weapons."
The Saudi aggression was launched in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government of president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and against the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective administration.
The offensive has, however, achieved neither of its goals despite the spending of billions of petrodollars and the enlisting of Saudi Arabia's regional and Western allies.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.
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