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On Friday, the ICRC, citing authorities in Saada, said that 51 people were killed in the attack, including 40 children, while 79 people had been injured, including 56 children.

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PHOTO: A doctor treats children injured by an airstrike in Saada, Yemen, Aug. 9, 2018.
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On Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called on the Saudi government to conduct a \"thorough and transparent investigation” into the attack during a press briefing.

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PHOTO: A Yemeni child is transported to a hospital after being being wounded in a reported air strike on the Iran-backed Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada, Aug. 9, 2018.
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But when asked by reporters whether she saw the need for an independent investigation, Nauert would not say.

“This is something that is fresh, that just happened, so I’m not going to get ahead of any kind of investigation that may take place,” Nauert said.

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PHOTO: Yemenis gather next to the destroyed bus at the site of a Saudi-led coalition air strike, that targeted the Dahyan market the previous day in the Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada, Aug. 10, 2018.
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The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen since March 2015. After the Houthis took over the capital of Sanaa and forced interim president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to flee the country, the Arab Sunni coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, launched a war to restore Hadi’s government to power.

Since then, more than 10,000 people have been killed, and the coalition has been blamed by the United Nations for most of the civilian deaths. Western countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., back the coalition and have supplied it with weapons and other military equipment.

Yemen is one of the world’s poorest countries and the war has made conditions there much worse. More than 22 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than half of the country’s health facilities are out of service, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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