World Health Organisation says at least 7,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s 20-month civil war with the UN peace envoy warning the country is teetering on the “brink of the abyss.”

In a statement released on Monday, the WHO said “more than 7,070 people had been killed and over 36,818 injured” as of October 25 – with another 21 million people in urgent need of health services.