CNN : US supplied bombs that killed Yemeni children.
WASHINGTON : The bomb that killed 40 children and 11 others in a coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen was sold by the United States under a State Department deal with Riyadh, CNN reported.
The numbers on shrapnel, of which images were taken shortly after the attack this month, indicate that it was a laser guided MK 82 bomb manufactured by defence contractor Lockheed Martin, CNN said Friday citing munition experts.
Former president Barrack banned the sale of precision guided weaponry to Saudi Arabia after it used a similar bomb in an October 2016 attack that killed 140 people at a funeral in the capital Sanaa.
But President Donald Trump overturned that ban after taking office in 2017.
Fifty-six children were also among the 70 people wounded in the August 9 strike on Saada province, a rebel held stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, according to the international Committee of the Red Cross.
The coalition has promised an internal inquiry but analysts and the groups aid groups have voiced doubt that it is ready to provide the transparency and accountability demanded by the wider international community.
It is apart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, a conflict that has killed nearly 10,000 people since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 as Houthi rebel fighting closed in on the last bastion President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's government. [AFP]
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