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Saudi-led coalition jets on Thursday pounded areas in and around Sana’a for a third consecutive day.
In the morning, coalition warplanes struck the Al-Dailami airbase near Sana’a airport and a military school inside the Yemeni capital, the Saba news agency reported.
Military sources loyal to the exiled Hadi government said the air raids targeted only military positions held by the Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries and their allies, supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
But Saba said civilian homes were also struck, and reported other raids on the Houthi stronghold of Saada, a northern province near the borders with Saudi Arabia.
It said Sana’a airport had been closed since the coalition on Tuesday launched a wave of air raids in and around the capital, for the first time in three months.
The raids had been halted as Kuwait hosted UN-brokered peace talks between and the Yemeni regime and the Ansarullah and their allies.
The United Nations says more than 6,400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Yemen since the coalition air campaign began in March 2015.
The fighting has also driven 2.8 million people from their homes and left more than 80 percent of the population needing humanitarian aid.
Around 100 members of the Saudi forces and civilians have been killed in skirmishes, by artillery fire or landmines inside the kingdom’s borders since the coalition launched its campaign.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
