Update: Child killed, 5 civilians injured in coalition shelling on school in Taiz

A child was killed and five civilians, mostly children, were injured on Sunday as a result of artillery shelling of Saudi-led coalition forces on a school in central of Taiz city, southwest of Yemen, a security official told Yemen Press Agency.

The coalition forces’ artillery shelling targeted ‘May 22’ School in Salah district in the city, which led to the killing of a child, and the injury of a man and his son, the official explained.

This comes less than an hour after a woman and two children were wounded as a result of the coalition shelling on the same school.

YPA