{"id":56279,"date":"2019-12-25T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56279"},"modified":"2019-12-25T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T06:24:39","slug":"17-killed-in-saudi-led-artillery-attack-on-northern-yemeni-border-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56279","title":{"rendered":"17 Killed In Saudi-Led Artillery Attack On Northern Yemeni Border Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANAA, Dec 25 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday, in a Saudi-led coalition artillery attack on a popular border market in Yemen&#8217;s northern province of Saada, medics and local residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Twelve Ethiopian migrants were among those killed in the cross-border shelling at Al-Raqu market,&#8221; two medics and a local resident at the scene said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack also injured over 15 others, the sources said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition, which has been engaging in the Yemeni conflict since 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Al-Raqu market in Munabih district, which borders Saudi Arabia, has been frequently attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, strongly condemned a similar cross-border attack on the Al-Raqu market that killed 10 and injured 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 120,600 East African refugees and migrants entered Yemen this year, according to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many African migrants fled their countries to Yemen, from which they would later infiltrate through the borders to enter Saudi Arabia for jobs.&#8211; NNN-SABA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Dec 25 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday, in a Saudi-led coalition artillery attack on a popular border market in Yemen&#8217;s northern province of Saada, medics and local residents said. &#8220;Twelve Ethiopian migrants were among those killed in the cross-border shelling at Al-Raqu market,&#8221; two medics and a local resident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}