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Saudi air raids on arms depot claim 15 lives in Yemen’s capital

Monday, 11 May 2015 7:58 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 11:25 PM ]

Yemeni men run for cover as smoke billows following Saudi airstrikes in Sana’a on May 10, 2015. (AFP Photo)

At least 15 people have been killed and over 200 injured after Saudi jets targeted an arms depot in Yemen’s capital city Sana’a.

The Monday night twin raids targeted the depot in the al-Naqam region on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

According to witnesses, the raids triggered several explosions that sent pieces of artillery flying, with one landing into the roof of a residential building.

Following the raids, thick plumes of black smoke reached skywards from the site and debris was scattered across residential areas in the region.

According the Yemeni Health Ministry, the death toll from Saudi Arabia’s Monday raids on the southern Yemeni city of Ta’izz has risen to 34.

Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital Sana’a and other major provinces, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.

According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000 people, roughly half of whom have been civilians.

The Al Saud regime has imposed a blockade on the delivery of relief supplies to the war-stricken people of Yemen in defiance of calls by international aid groups.

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