25 ’ Civilians’ Killed by Saudi-led Jets in Yemen’s Capital Sanaa
Local Editor
At least 25 civilians have been killed in Saudi-led airstrikes against residential areas in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a.
Scores were also wounded after Saudi-led warplanes targeted the districts of Hasbah, Sawan as well as a sports stadium in the capital on Monday, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.
Several residential houses as well as an administrative building were destroyed in the Saudi-led air raids, the report further said.
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.
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 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.
