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Coalition forces, which are supported by the United States and Britain, launched fresh air strikes overnight.
Residents said at least nine members of the same family, including at least five children, were killed in one air strike which hit their home in Wadi Khair in southern Yemen’s Shabwa province.
Coalition aircraft have been providing air support for southern fighters and pro-regime troops as part of a push to clear the Houthi revolutionaries from Shabwa.
Residents also reported that coalition aircraft bombed a new parliament house, part of a government compound being built in Sana’a, causing damage but no casualties.
The coalition had no immediate comment on the report but says it does not target civilians.
Similar air strikes in which civilian homes, markets and hospitals were hit are recurrent in Yemen. On Monday, eight women and two children from the same family died when war planes struck a vehicle returning from a wedding party in Marib, east of Sana’a.
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.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
