Yemenis in Sanaa mourn dozens killed in strike blamed on Saudi Arabia

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Mourners gathered in Sanaa to honor dozens of people, nearly half of them children, killed in strikes last week that were blamed on Saudi Arabia. At a mosque renamed by the Iran-backed Houthis, some mourners chanted anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans.

Large crowds gathered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday to mourn the deaths of dozens of people, nearly half of them children, killed last week in strikes blamed on Saudi Arabia. Mourners prayed at the city's Mosque of the People -- formerly the Saleh Mosque, but renamed by the Iran-backed Houthis after they took over the capital -- and chanted "Death to America! Death to Israel!" according to an AFP photographer present.