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Saudi-led warplanes bombed two houses in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, medics and local officials said.

The attack came a day after similar air strikes killed around 50 people.

"Two missiles hit the two houses in the Asbahi district in southern Sana’a, destroying them, killing 20 people and wounding others", a medic at the scene said, according to Reuters.

A local official had earlier said that a hotel in the same district had been hit.

The SABA news agency said that 236 people have been killed in Saudi-led air strikes over the last four days.

The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to more than 2,000 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 United Nations [UN] recently this week. 

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.