Saudi-Led Coalition Launches Fiercest Attacks on Yemen: Witnesses
Local Editor
War planes from a Saudi-led military coalition bombed throughout Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on Thursday, in what witnesses described as the fiercest series of attacks on the city in over five months of war.
The attacks hit civilian houses and military bases, as explosions and wailing ambulance sirens forced a sleepless night on the city’s nearly 2 million shell-shocked residents.
"The sick people fled the hospital in terror," an official at a private hospital said. "They were afraid the building would collapse from the non-stop bombing...nearby."
There were no immediate reports of casualties, a day after medics said the bombing killed six civilians in the city, Reuters reported.
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 ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently last month.
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.
