ADEN, Dec 5 (NNN-YPA) – A total of 16 people were killed, as a result of an aerial bombardment against Houthi military vehicles, in Yemen’s south-western province of Taiz, a military official said, yesterday.
“An airstrike was launched late on Friday night and struck a convoy of the Houthi rebel militia, in the countryside district of Maqbanah in Taiz, causing a huge explosion,” the source said.
The airstrike struck the Houthi military convoy when it was passing through an area held by a group of civilians, he added.
The source confirmed that the aerial bombardment, which partially destroyed the convoy, killed 16 people, including five civilians, and wounded about eight.
The district of Maqbanah in Taiz is controlled by the Houthi rebels, and the group accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out an aerial bombardment against the district.
The Houthi-affiliated Masirah television network reported that, 16 civilians including children were killed “in a raid carried out by the Saudi warplane in Maqbanah district on Friday night.”
The Saudi-led coalition has made no immediate comment yet, but it has recently intensified airstrikes against various Houthi-held sites across the war-ravaged country.
