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Iran ready to offer treatment to wounded Yemenis

Xinhua, October 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday denounced the alleged Saudi-led airstrike against Yemen's capital Sanaa, expressing Tehran's readiness to treat the wounded people, Press TV reported.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to take swift action with regard to transferring the wounded (Yemenis) and treating them (in Iran) in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)," Larijani said.

"After more than one and half years of Saudi Arabia's deadly military aggression against Yemen and acts of violence against the country's oppressed people, the world once again was shocked by Saudi air raid on a funeral hall in the capital of Sanaa which left hundreds of defenseless civilians dead or injured," he said.

Larijani criticized international community for what he called their "silence and indifference" over ongoing situation in Yemen.

The alleged deadly attack by Saudi-led coalition on a mourning ceremony in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday has drawn strong criticism from the Islamic republic officials.

According to medical sources, the attack left more than 160 people killed, including military leaders and government officials allied with Iran-backed Shiite Houthis and their ally Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Hundreds of others, mostly civilians, were injured and many bodies were completely burned and turned into ashes, witnesses near the scene said. Endit