U.N. Seeks Inquiry Into Deadly Assault on Migrant Boat Near Yemen<br />The attack on the boat, believed to be carrying 145 people leaving Yemen, was among the most horrific episodes of deadly violence on asylum seekers there since Saudi Arabia<br />and its allies entered the country’s civil war and began an air campaign against the Houthi rebels two years ago.<br />Yemen said that We call on all parties to the conflict to make proper inquiries to ensure accountability and to prevent this from happening again.<br />By RICK GLADSTONEMARCH 20, 2017<br />The United Nations on Monday called for an inquiry into an aerial assault on a boat<br />of migrants last week off Yemen’s Red Sea coast that left at least 42 people dead.<br />Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, described the assault as an "unwarranted attack on helpless civilians fleeing violence<br />and conflict" in a statement from the refugee agency’s Geneva headquarters.<br />Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, has been consumed by war since March 2015 when Saudi Arabia<br />and its partners began bombarding the Houthis, who had seized parts of the country including the capital, Sana, from the government.<br />The captain, who was fatally wounded, was able to pilot the boat to Al Hudaydah, where rescue workers stored the dead in fish coolers<br />because hospitals had no room, the head of port security said.
