Local Editor
Security services have identified seven family members found dead by Saudi air raids recently this week on a residential compound in Mokha district in Taiz province in Yemen, the district’s police said on Wednesday.
The Human Rights Watch [HRW] organization visited the area of the Saudi attack a day and a half later. "Buildings damaged showed that six [Saudi] bombs had struck the plant’s main residential compound, which housed at least 200 families, according to the plant’s managers.
One bomb had struck a separate compound for short-term workers about a kilometer north of the main compound, destroying the water tank for the compounds, and two bombs had struck the beach and an intersection nearby," HRW said.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
Based on UN figures, over 3,261 people have been killed, 1,670 of whom were civilians in the Saudi onslaught.
