A total of 13 people, among them women and children, were killed in airstrikes by Saudi warplanes against Yarim District of the southwestern city of Ibb, located about 170 kilometers [106 miles] south of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, on Sunday, Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported.
More than two dozen people were also injured in the attacks, and seven residential buildings were reduced to rubble, the report further added.
Saudi warplanes also pounded the al-Anad air base near the southern city of al-Houta in Lahij Province. There were no immediate reports on the possible casualties as well as the extent of the damage.
Additionally, Saudi military aircraft bombarded a number of houses in the Monabbih district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada, leaving 19 people dead and several others injured.
