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An emergency command center was setup at the scene, because some of the people only needed on-scene treatment and did not need to go to the hospital. Over 200 people were injured.

Besides, higher supplies from the major producing areas and weak trend at overseas market weighed on crude palm oil prices.

Specialists and businessmen alike have stated OPEC must restrict manufacturing to regulate the worth of oil to maintain costs from persevering with to drop whereas some authorities have continued to say the worth will bounce again.

Saudi policymakers insist the kingdom will maintain its market share and let low prices take care of the surplus by forcing cuts from higher cost producers and stimulating fuel demand.

War-torn Yemen is on the brink of famine, with millions of women and children most at risk of starvation as fighting around major ports stalls imports of food and other humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.

They explained this policy shift by stating that they wanted to defend their market share and didn’t want customers buying oil from other sources.

In the latest escalation of Yemen’s five- month war, Houthi rebels said they’ve fired a Scud missile into Saudi Arabia while a Saudi official acknowledged sending forces into northern Yemen in a bid to stop border attacks.

Bahrain also declined, but it was the only market that lost below one per cent at 0.37 per cent.

Prices of crude have collapsed by close to 62 percent since the November high of close to $105 last November which is being seen as a huge negative for oil producing countries in the Middle East.

In a report released Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Amnesty worldwide says all sides fighting in Yemen have left a “trail of civilian death and destruction” in the conflict, killing scores of innocent people in what could amount to war crimes.

High-ranking officials in Yemen’s port city of Aden say al-Qaida militants have taken control of key areas of the city.

“The scale of human suffering is nearly incomprehensible”.

“It is with utmost dismay that I learned of the airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, Yemen which killed 13 teachers, 4 children and injured 20 people on Tuesday night”.

Saudi-led coalition warships were said to be en route to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah as coalition air strikes pounded Houthi rebel targets in the city.

“More than 65 civilians in the province of Taiz, Yemen have been killed in Saudi-led air strikes today, including 17 people from one family”.