Red Cross says 2.5 million Yemenis lack access to clean water

Tue Nov 21, 2017 05:10PM
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Women fill containers with water on the outskirts of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, November 12, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Women fill containers with water on the outskirts of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, November 12, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Mohammad al-Attab
Press TV, Sana'a

Five major Yemeni cities lack access to clean water due to a full blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia two weeks ago. The absence of clean water has raised fears of the outbreak of other water-borne diseases in addition to cholera which has killed at least 2,200 people since April.