Fighting has raged around the government-held city since February, when the Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a campaign to try to take the oil-rich region from the government.
Thousands of civilians living in camps for internally displaced people have already had to flee again as the fighting approached the city, Mr Omar said.
“Civilians in Marib have been suffering a lot,” he said. “They need life-saving aid and medical assistance.”
Mr Omar urged the parties in the conflict to make safe corridors to allow civilians to escape the fighting, and to protect vital infrastructure such as dams, power plants and the water network.
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fire at a Houthi-run detention centre in Sanaa have spoken to
The National about events which led to the tragedy.
A number of survivors fled to Aden after
the March 8 inferno that
may have killed at least 45 people and injured more than 170.
Survivors claim that Iran-backed Houthi militias rounded up hundreds of
migrants, predominantly from Ethiopia s Oromo ethnic group.
They were forced to either pay the Houthis or join them in their
fight against the government. They forcibly detained me while I was working in a restaurant in Sanaa city last week, said Radhwan
Oromo, a young Ethiopian migrant.
He was among the