Helicopter Attack by Saudi-led Coalition Kills ’25 Civilians’ in Yemen Village

Local Editor

The Saudi aggression killed 28 people and injured 17 others by airstrikes in Bani Zila’a village of Yemen’s Hajjah province, SABA said on Sunday.

An official source in the operations room in the province told SABA that helicopters attacked citizens’ homes, chased them when they fled their houses and fired at them brutally.

The teams of rescue and ambulance are still transmitting a number of the injured from those were able to hide in fortified places, the source said, adding that the number of dead is expected to rise.

 

The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,000 with more than 4,000 other civilians wounded in the fighting in the country that has raged for more than a year now, according to the United Nations [UN] recently this week. 

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 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.