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war crimes: At least 51 people, including 40 children, were killed, and 79 others, including 56 children, were wounded, according to Vancouver Courier. Human Rights Watch said the attack adds to the coalition's already gruesome track record of killing civilians at weddings, funerals, hospitals and schools in Yemen. The report came days after U.N. human rights experts said all sides in the fighting may have been responsible for committing war crimes in the 3 1/2-year conflict.article continues below Trending Stories Park yourself here Doctors prescribed addiction training Your commute is going to suck on Tuesday, so Trans Link has some words of wisdom Submissions for Granville Island's new Innovation Hub run Sept 1. to 30The coalition backing Yemen's internationally recognized government expressed regret Saturday and pledged to hold accountable those found to be responsible for the airstrike, which hit a bus carrying children in a busy market in the northern province of Saada. The New York-based group said it spoke by phone to 14 witnesses, including nine children, who said that shortly before 8 30 a.m. on Aug. 9, a bomb fell on the market in Dhahyan, a town north of Saada in Houthi-controlled northwestern Yemen, 60 kilometres 37 miles from the Saudi border. The bus was parked outside a grocery store where the driver had gone to buy water for the children, HRW said. The bomb landed a few meters from a bus packed with boys on an excursion organized by a mosque to visit the graves of men who had been killed in fighting, the group said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.