UPDATE: Death toll from Yemen stampede during charity distribution rises to 85 with more than 322 injured, Houthi security official says
More than 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured in war-torn Yemen after a charity distribution sparked one of the deadliest stampedes in a decade, Houthi officials said.
"Women and children were among the dead," he told AFP on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to journalists. A second health official confirmed the toll. Interior Ministry spokesperson Brigadier Abdel-Khaleq al-Aghri, blamed the crush on the "random distribution" of funds without coordination with local authorities. Civil war broke out in Yemen in 2014, when Houthi rebels seized Sanaa, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene the following year to prop up the internationally recognised government.
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