Saudis host to G-20 summit of world leaders as Yemeni civilian deaths spike

The boy's family watched as he lay bleeding and alone in a field, the sharp crack of bullets piercing the air. "The sniper kept on firing," Mohamed Abyad, the uncle of the child also named Mohamed, told NBC News. "He wouldn't let them get near him for five minutes," the farmer said via telephone of the incident that saw the family caught up in fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-backed Houthis rebels in the country's devastating civil war. When the firing finally subsided, Abyad said Mohamed's brothers rushed him to a nearby field hospital but it was too late — he died on the way. Mohamed was only 10 when a suspected Houthi sniper killed him. That was in October — the deadliest month for Yemeni children and their families so far this year, according to Save the Children. In two fighting hot spots in the war-ravaged country, child casualties increased by 55 percent compared to this year's monthly average,according to the Loneon-based humanitarian group. The spike was reported ahead of this weekend's virtual summit of G-20 leaders hosted by neighboring Saudi Arabia, which entered Yemen's war on the side of the internationally recognized government in 2015 after… Read full this story

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