UN experts discover British-made bomb parts in Yemen;
Guidance unit for ‘high explosive bomb’ found at site in Yemen capital.
The attacks took place in September 2016, a month after the then foreign secretary Boris Johnson said he was content to allow the export of weapons systems to Saudi Arabia in the expectation they would be used in Yemen.
A guidance unit for a “high explosive” bomb – stamped with the name of a Brighton based company, EDO MBM Technology Ltd – were found at the site in the Yemen capital Sana’a after four bombs were dropped on the site at 12.45am on 13 September.
Missile parts from the same British factory – ultimately owned by the US arms supplier L3 Harris – were also found by the UN experts at the Alsonidar complex following a second air strike nine days later, where a water pump factory and a former tube maker were located.
The UN Panel concluded “there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that the factory complex had become a legitimate military objective” because there was no evidence that any hardware was manufactured on the site – Report.

On 13 September 2018, three children and a woman were killed, and a man was injured when multiple Saudi-led coalition airstrikes targeted several districts of Saada Governorate – Yaman Yoon report.
13 Sept 2020, according to Almasirah TV, the warplanes of the Saudi aggression launched five strikes against Sana’a International Airport, 13 other raids against the cities in the vicinity
The coalition had operated six raids on the Military Engineering Department in Sawan area of Shoub District on Saturday.
The warplanes had also launched a raid on a citizen’s farm in Bani Heshaesh district of Sana’a governorate on the same day – MehrNews report.
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