5 CIVILIANS KILLED BY AIR STRIKES IN YEMEN…
Air strikes killed five civilians and wounded at least 14,
including four children, outside the northern Yemeni city of Saada on Tuesday,
a Reuters witness and medics said.
A Saudi-led coalition that intervened in
Yemen’s war in 2015 to try to restore its president to power has conducted
frequent air strikes targeting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels and has often hit civilians, although denies ever doing so intentionally.
Medics and a Reuters photographer who saw the
wreckage in Saada said an initial air strike destroyed a house in the outlying Sohar district of the city, the main stronghold of the Houthis who control much
of northern Yemen.
The medics said twofurther air strikes hit paramedics who were trying to lift the victims from the
rubble. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be
reached for comment.
The coalition entered Yemen’s conflict three
years ago against the Houthis after they ousted the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people,
displaced more than 2 million and driven the country - already the poorest on
the Arabian Peninsula - to the verge of widespread famine.
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