74 Civilians Killed in Less than 48 Hours by Saudi-led Airstrikes in Yemen
Local Editor
The Saudi-led coalition’s ongoing airstrikes against the Yemeni people have claimed the lives of at least 74 people between Friday and Saturday, injuring around 130 others across Yemen.
Saudi jets pummeled Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, killing 35 people and injuring more than 120 others. Yemen’s SABA news agency said that the number of the victims could rise due to the intensity of the attacks.
The Saud-led aircraft targeted the Yemeni Interior Ministry building, public services facilities and residential buildings in the city.
The Saudi-led warplanes killed four civilians and left a number of people injured when they struck the Sirwah district in the Ma’rib province in west-central Yemen.
The warplanes also attacked the Al Bayda province in southern Yemen, killing a child and wounding two of the victim’s family members.
As many as 21 people were killed and two others wounded after the Saudi-led warplanes attacked a village in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada. Elsewhere in the province, Saudi-led attacks killed 13 Yemeni citizens and injured four others.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently last month.
The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
