Ansarullah: 22 killed in Saudi strikes on Yemen’s Sana’a Province
Yemeni media said on Saturday that Saudi strikes killed 22 people, most of them women and children, in Yemen’s Sana’a Province, as deaths mount in the country’s war.
The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed in the impoverished country.
“The number of victims of the Saudi enemy warplane massacre in the Al-Shariyah area... has risen to 22 citizens, most of them children and women, while the number of wounded has risen to 30,” Yemen’s Saba news agency said.
Saba said earlier Saturday that operations to recover victims from the rubble were ongoing and that “aircraft targeted paramedics with two strikes”.
Al-Masirah broadcast footage that it says was filmed in Al-Shariyah, showing smoke rising from a struck site, piles of debris and wounded people in hospital.
The Saudi-led coalition in a statement on Saturday said it had intercepted and destroyed a missile launched towards Riyadh Province.
On Friday, an attack on a market in Taiz Province killed 30 people. Yemen’s Ansarullah movement said Saudi airstrikes were to blame, while Saudi-backed forces in south accused Ansarullah of having fired a ballistic missile at the site.
Yemen slipped back into war between Ansarullah and the Saudi-backed government in July after years of relative calm, opening a new front in the conflict in the Middle East.
Since then, Saudi Arabia has regularly bombed Ansarullah’s positions, while the group has multiplied its attacks against the oil-rich kingdom.
The conflict flared up in July after the Ansarullah allowed an Iranian plane to land in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, in defiance of Saudi control over Yemeni airspace, setting off a spate of attacks.
The Ansarullah then declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and began hitting its ships, territory and oil facilities.