One morning last August, a laser-guided bomb dropped by a Saudi Arabian jet struck a school bus in the Yemeni town of Dahyan in the far northwest of the country. The bus had been taking students on a field trip. In an instant, 44 children and 10 adults were obliterated.
Not far from the huge crater marking where the bomb struck lies the graveyard where the victims, most of them younger than 10 years old, are now buried. At each grave, a color portrait of a victim is propped over a coffin-shaped mound of dry, rocky earth.
Even in a nation that has grown hardened to tragedy, the school bus bombing was shocking. But at the same time, it was typical of the toll that war is taking on Yemen’s civilians.
One morning last August, a Saudi Arabian jet dropped a laser-guided bomb in an airstrike. It struck a school bus in the Yemeni town of Dahyan in the far northwest of the country. The bus had been taking students on a field trip. In an instant, 44 children and 10 adults were killed.
A huge crater now marks where the bomb struck. Not far from it lies the graveyard where the victims are buried. Most of them were younger than 10 years old. At each grave, a color portrait of a victim is propped over a coffin-shaped mound of dry, rocky earth. Even in a nation that has grown hardened to tragedy, the school bus bombing was shocking. But at the same time, it was typical of the toll that war is taking on Yemen’s civilians.