The United Nations on Tuesday warned of recent intensified airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition, which killed at least 136 civilians in Yemen in ten days.
"We are deeply concerned at the recent surge in civilian casualties in Yemen," Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
The recent surge in the country began following the killing of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on Dec. 4.
"136 civilians and non-combatants were killed and some 87 injured as a result of airstrikes in Sanaa, Saada, Al Hudaydah and Taizz governorates in the period from Dec. 6 to 16," Colville said.
According to U.N., a total of 5558 civilians have been killed and 9,065 others injured in Yemen since March 2015.
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