Saudi-led airstrikes claim 60 in Yemen
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SAUDI-LED coalition airstrikes on rebel-held security buildings in Yemen’s west, including a detention center, killed 60 people, an official said yesterday.
“Sixty people in total were killed and dozens were wounded,” said a health official from the coastal province of Hodeida where the two raids took place on Saturday.
A military source close to the insurgents said on Saturday that there were more than 100 inmates in two cells at the facility and most of them were held because of their opposition to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who have held Hodeida since late 2014.
Earlier, the same health official had put at 38 the number of inmates and insurgents killed in the air raids on the buildings in Zaidia, north of Hodeida.
It is unclear why the coalition would hit a detention center holding anti-rebel inmates.
Elsewhere on Saturday, strikes on residential buildings killed 17 people and wounded seven in the battleground town of Salo, southeast of Yemen’s third city Taez, rebel-controlled media said.
The sabanews.net website said four raids had completely destroyed three residential buildings.
A local official loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government said its airstrikes had hit three adjacent homes by mistake.
“All those in the houses were killed,” he said. But the coalition has so far not commented on both attacks.
Forces loyal to President Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government have been locked in deadly battles with Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in 2014.
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