Yemen's War: Children Paying the Price

When the blast went off in early April, shrapnel hit homes and schools all over the quiet residential neighborhood of the Yemeni capital.   Windows shattered and the 2,000 girls in a nearby school tried to evacuate at once, many racing down the stairs and some dying in the stampede.   Safia Al-Wesabi, a 10-year-old student of the Al-Ra'ai School, made it out safely, but she couldn’t find her older, teenaged sister outside. "I was sobbing,” she said. “I...

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