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Governorate. According to eyewitnesses’ accounts, all the casualties were employees
working the nightshift at the factory. Witnesses and residents told OHCHR that no military
target existed within the vicinity of the factory and no warning was given to the factory
workers prior to the attack.
On 3 February 2016, 14 civilians including two children were killed, and 53 others,
including four children, were injured when an airstrike by the Coalition Forces hit the
Amran Cement Factory Complex in Amran Town. The Complex incurred significant
destruction to its administrative building. In addition, 11 nearby houses and shops were
partially damaged, two trucks were burnt and nine vehicles including an ambulance were
destroyed. OHCHR documented two prior incidents in which the same Complex on
18 February 2015 and 12 July 2015.35
On 18 August 2015, an airstrike hit the Teachers’ Syndicate Office in Amran, killing
21 civilians, a majority of whom were teachers, and four children and two women, while
28 other civilians were injured. OHCHR learnt that at the time of the attack, the building
was hosting a meeting of the Academic Examination Sub-Committee to endorse the final
primary and secondary school certificates. Witnesses told OHCHR that two military aircraft
dropped two bombs on the building. A survivor from the Ministry of Education told
OHCHR that bodies of 15 teachers and two children, sons of the Deputy Director of the
Education Office had been pulled out the rubble while 11 others remained in serious
conditions. In addition, three private houses were fully destroyed and two public buildings,
the Education and Languages faculties, incurred structural damages. At least two officials
from the Ministry of Education who survived the attack told OHCHR that there was no
military target in the vicinity of the building at the time of the attack, and that no warnings
were issued about the imminent attack.36
On 1 September 2015, another airstrike by the Coalition Forces struck a house in Bayda’s
Mukiras Governorate, killing all members of a family of eleven civilians which included
four children and four women. According to eyewitnesses, all the victims were inside the
house at the time of the attack, and the targeted house was in a civilian residential area
where there were no identifiable military targets within its vicinity.
On 13 October 2015, six civilians including three children and three women were killed,
and 13 civilians including five children and eight women were injured, as a result of a
series of airstrikes which hit the Omaisy Neighbourhood in the Khokha district of Hodeida.
OHCHR spoke to local residents who confirmed that the airstrikes had hit civilian homes in
Al-Omaisy neighbourhood causing varying degrees of damage to 94 houses. Witnesses
stated that there were not aware of military targets win the neighbourhood and that no
warnings to civilians were issued prior to the attacks. 37
D.
Addendum to VI/Allegations of violations and abuses/Military
Operations/ 3) Attacks by other armed groups
On 30 August 2015, Brigadier Abdul Hakeem Al-Senaidi, a military leader with the Local
Resistance Committees affiliated with Hadi was killed in the Kabuta Area, in Aden’s AlMansoura District. Eyewitnesses told OHCHR that unidentified armed men attacked
Brigadier Al-Senaidi as he was leaving his home in the Kabuta Area. On the same day, a
prominent Hirak leader was killed in the Al-Alam District of Aden Governorate. According
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OHCHR Monthly Report February 2016.
OHCHR bi-monthly report: 14-27 August 2015.
OHCHR Monthly Report October 2015.
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