5Photo© hindustantimes.com5 Killed, 10 Wounded After Parachute Fails To Open During Humanitarian Aid Drop In Gaza
Five people were killed and at least 10 were injured on Friday after a humanitarian airdrop's parachute failed to open following which a pallet crashed into a group of civilians who had queued for food at the Al-Shati refugee camp in the northern territory of Palestine. The casualties were immediately rushed to Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, news agency AFP reported citing the hospital's emergency head nurse Mohammed al-Sheikh.
As per a witness, he and his brother followed the parachuted aid, hoping to get a "bag of flour" but the "parachute did not open and fell like a rocket on the roof of one of the houses, AFP quoted the 50-year-old witness Mohammed al-Ghoul saying.
"Ten minutes later I saw people transferring three martyrs and others injured, who were staying on the roof of the house where the aid packages fell," the witness told AFP.