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Saudi airstrike kills 3 in Yemen’s Sa’ada

Yemeni vendors try to salvage goods from under the rubble of their shops following an Saudi airstrike on the Yemeni capital Sana’a on July 20, 2015. (AFP)

At least three people have been killed in a Saudi airstrike in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa'ada.

According to Yemeni media reports, the deaths occurred after Saudi warplanes launched attacks in the province’s Baqim district late on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, two civilians were killed and two more were injured after Saudi jets carried out multiple raids in the southwestern Ibb province.

Bombing raids were also launched on the northwestern provinces of 'Amran and Hajjah and the central province of Ma’rib.

Meanwhile, fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement and allied Yemeni army units carried out retaliatory attacks on two Saudi military bases in Dhahran Aljanoub, south of the 'Asir region.

They also launched a volley of missiles at a Saudi army base in the southwestern Jizan region and killed a Saudi solider in the southwestern Jizan region. 

On the early hours of Saturday, Yemeni forces destroyed a Saudi tank and other military equipment in the same province.    

On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.

According to the United Nations, the war on Yemen has killed some 4,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, since late March. Local Yemeni sources, however, put the fatality figure at a much higher number.

 


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