Local Editor

Twelve Somali nationals have been killed after the US-led Saudi aggression pounded a bridge in Yemen’s province of Sa’ada on Saturday.

Twelve Somali citizens were killed after Saudi-led war jets pounded a bridge in the Bagim district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada on Saturday, SABA news agency reported.

Saudi-led warplanes also bombarded two areas as well as a village in the Khawlan district, located in Sana’a Province, multiple times.

Tens of families also left the al-Mukha District in the southwestern province of Ta’izz following similar Saudi-led airborne assaults.

Saudi jets further struck two areas in Yemen’s central Ma’rib province.

Meanwhile, in retaliation for the ongoing Saudi-led attacks on the country, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees fired retaliatory rockets into two military bases in Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network 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 more than 2,300 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 UN recently last month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.

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.