DUBAI: Yemen's 7-year-old war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year, through both direct and indirect impacts, a United Nations agency estimated.

Nearly 60 percent of deaths will have been caused by indirect impacts, such as lack of safe water, hunger and disease, it said, suggesting that fighting will have directly killed over 150,000 people.

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