Sanaa: At least 20 civilians were killed on
Saturday when Saudi-led coalition fighter jets hit Yemen’s Red Sea port city of
Hodeidah, witnesses and a medical source told Xinhua.
The
warplanes struck three taxis full of travellers near a crowded restaurant in
the city, killing a number of people, including women and children. Dozens of
clients inside the restaurant were also killed or injured, according to
witnesses.
Medical
source in the Hodeidah hospital told Xinhua by phone that at least 20 were
killed and 10 others wounded.
The
attack took place around noon at the al-Jarrahi district.
The
attack was the latest in a series of airstrikes conducted by the US-backed
Saudi-led coalition air force since the start of the war in Yemen three years
ago.
Last
Tuesday, the coalition’s warplanes targeted a crowded popular market in the
southwestern province of Taiz, killing over 40 people, according to local media
and witnesses.
A
day earlier, a family of nine members, including five children, were killed when
the coalition struck the family’s house five times in Yemen’s capital Sanaa,
local residents and a Xinhua photographer at the scene witnessed.
The
Saudi-led coalition has intervened in the Yemeni conflict since March 2015 to
roll back the Houthi militants and support the internationally-recognized
President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was forced into exile by the Houthis.
The
war has killed over 10,000 Yemenis, mostly children, and displaced 3 million
others, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
—IANS
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