Expired drug kills 10 child leukemia patients in Yemen

The children were aged between three and 15 and died at Sanaa's Kuwait Hospital after being injected with old doses of smuggled medicine at a number of private clinics. [iStockphoto]

At least 10 child leukemia patients in Yemen have died, and dozens more left seriously ill, after being administered expired doses of cancer treatment in the rebel-held capital, medical officials and workers said on Friday.

Yemen's ruinous conflict, now entering its eighth year, has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and killed in excess of 150,000 people.