Young Girl Is Sole Survivor After Airstrike Topples Her Yemen Home

A young girl pulled from the rubble of her home was the only survivor in her family after an airstrike toppled their apartment in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Friday.

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تاریخ: ۰۵ شهريور ۱۳۹۶ - ۰۸:۲۴

Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be 4 or 5, lost eight members of her family in the attack, according to a report from Reuters. Photographs show rescuers carrying the girl from the debris, her bright red top and tiny jeans covered in dust.

She was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries.

The Friday morning strike was not intended for her home, but hit a nearby vacant building and caused the residential block to collapse. Five of her siblings, her parents and an uncle all died.

Fourteen people were killed and another 16 injured in the attack, one as young as three years old, according to a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross, whose affiliate responded to the scene of the strike and aided the injured.

"Such loss of civilian life is outrageous and runs counter to the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict,” said the deputy head of I.C.R.C.’s delegation in Yemen, Carlos Morazzani, in a statement.

A Saudi Arabia-led coalition took responsibility for the airstrike a day after the attack citing a "technical mistake” in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.

In the statement, the commander of the Saudi-led coalition "expressed deep sorrow over the occurrence of this unintentional and accidental incident, collateral damage to civilians and sincere sympathy with their relatives.”

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab nations have conducted airstrikes in Yemen as part of a long and bloody conflict with Houthi rebels that has plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis.