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Six members from a family, mostly children, were killed Tuesday night in an airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's northeastern province of Jawf, a local security official stated.
The airstrike hit the civilian house in Rohoob area of Barat Alanan district, killing the husband, wife and their four little girls, and destroying their home, the official said by phone on condition of anonymity.
A boy, the only survivor from the family, was critically wounded from the airstrike, said the official.
Rohoob area is a populated agricultural area and is about 20 km south of the battlefront, where fighting has been raging on between Houthi revolutionaries and the regime forces backed by the coalition warplanes.
The strike is the latest among a series of airstrikes 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 ago.
Residents said the family's house was targeted again a few minutes later when rescuers were trying to approach the house to help rescue possible survivors.
They said no rescuers were hurt as they were still a few meters away from the house.
Six days ago, a coalition airstrike targeted a house in Nehm district on the northeastern outskirts of the capital Sana’a, killing five civilians, mostly children and injuring three others from the same family, according to a local security official and residents.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a destructive military campaign against Yemen since March 2015 to reinstate former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and crush the Houthi movement.
The campaign has seriously damaged the country’s infrastructure. In its tallies released in February, Yemen’s Legal Center for Rights and Development said the Saudi war had killed over 12,000 civilians, including 2,568 kids.
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
