At least 38 people were killed in Saudi-led air strikes on rebel-held security buildings in Yemen’s west, including a detention centre, an official said yesterday
A member of Yemeni security forces stands guard next to the central bank in Yemen’s second city Aden. Pic/AFP
Aden: At least 38 people were killed in Saudi-led air strikes on rebel-held security buildings in Yemen’s west, including a detention centre, an official said yesterday.
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The provincial official said the bodies were transported to hospitals in the port city of Hodeidah, which the Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies have held since late 2014. He, however, did not specify the number of prisoners who died in
Saturday’s raids. Most of the more than 40 inmates at the facility were opponents of the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, according to a military source close to the insurgents.
Elsewhere, strikes on residential buildings killed 17 people and wounded seven in the battleground town of Salo, southeast of Yemen’s third city Taez, said rebel-controlled media.
The Saudi-led coalition has yet to comment on the report, but a local official loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognised government said its air strikes had hit three adjacent homes by mistake.
“All those in the houses were killed,” he said, adding a child and seven women were among the dead.
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