UN diplomats evacuate Yemen as Saudi Arabia intervenes

United Nations staff were pulled out from Yemen on Saturday after a third day of Saudi-led air strikes to tackle advances of Houthi militants left the area inhabitable.

Saudi Arabia’s navy evacuated dozens of diplomats from the region amidst attempts to quash the advances of Iranian allied Shi’ite Houthi fighters, reports Reuters.

A total of eighty-six diplomats and Saudi nationals were shipped out of Yemen through the Red Sea.

The director general of Yemen’s Health Ministry, al-Khadher Laswar, reported over 68 people dead and 452 wounded since Wednesday.

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