The number of civilian casualties in Yemen has been steadily mounting over the past few weeks, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Friday (August 12th).
"Despite the cessation of hostilities, between April 11th and August 11th, we have documented 815 civilian casualties, including 272 deaths and 543 injured," UNHCR spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said during a press briefing in Geneva.
"Of these, in just the past week, since August 5th, 49 civilians were killed and another 77 injured," she said.
The total number of civilian casualties between March 2015 and August 11th of this year stands at 10,270, including 3,704 killed and 6,566 injured.
