Bridge Targeted by Saudi Aggression in Yemen’s Sanaa
Local Editor
The Saudi-led warplanes launched three raids on Osfara bridge in Bani Matar District of Sana’a province on Thursday.
A local source told SABA that the airstrikes resulted in the complete destruction of the bridge and cut passengers’ traffic between Sana’a and Hodeida province.
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.
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 this month [September]. Yet, other organizations put the death toll at much higher.
