Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has called to properly secure and protect the crime scene of the mourning hall bombing in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sana’a where hundreds were killed and injured at a wake of a member of al-Rawishan’s family. 

Karman considered that as a very important step to facilitate tasks of the would-be committees of inquiry, which should be set up at national and international level.  

This comes at a time when activists and media are reporting the Houthi militia, after recovery of bodies, began sweeping away the Great Hall where the incident happened in an attempt to hide evidence that will assist in the investigation process.

Reuters, quoting the acting health minister Ghazi Ismail in the Houthi de facto authority, had reported that at least 82 (now 140) people were killed and 534 other were injured in an air strike hitting a hall in the southern part of Sanaa where a wake was taking place for the pro-coup interior minister’ father who passed away on Friday. 

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said its U.N. mission sent a letter on Sunday to the Security Council, expressing the kingdom's "deep regret of the reported attack" on the funeral. Saudi officials have promised to investigate the bombing.