October 2016 Sana'a air raid In total 155 peoples were killed and at least 525 more wounded when two airstrikes, about seven to eight minutes apart, hit the packed Al Kubra hall in Sana'a, Yemen during a funeral in the afternoon of 8 October 2016, at which point it became the deadliest single bombing of the then 2 year long Yemeni civil war. The funeral was being held for the father of Houthi interior minster Galal al-Rawishan. The Houthis have accused the coalition led by Saudi Arabia of being behind the airstrike, but they have denied responsibility. The Human Rights Watch deputy director for Global Advocacy indicated that this bombing continues the observed pattern of Saudi coalition's bombings in Yemen, saying that "the whole war has been marked by attacks on weddings, hospitals, civil