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At least five people were killed and three others injured Thursday in an airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's capital, a local security official stated.
The airstrike hit a residential house in the Nehm district on the northeastern outskirts of Sana’a, killing five people and leaving three others critically wounded, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The house was located in a heavily populated area about five km west of the battlefront, where fighting is raging on between Houthi revolutionaries and the Hadi forces backed by the coalition warplanes.
The strike is the latest among a series of airstrikes targeting civilians in the war-torn Arab country since the coalition launched a large-scale air campaign against the Houthis in Yemen more than two and a half years.
On Sept. 28, a Yemeni regime official said a fighter jet of the Saudi-led coalition “mistakenly” hit a market in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah and killed four civilians including two children and injured 14 others.
In March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemeni conflict to back the resigned regime of resigned President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
More than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the war with over 3 million others displaced, according to UN agencies.
The country has also been hit by a deadly cholera epidemic and is on the brink of mass famine.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
