Local Editor

Saudi-led airstrikes hit a public bus on a highway, splitting the vehicle in half and killing at least 20 passengers north of the southern city of Aden in Yemen, witnesses and officials said on Thursday.

The bus was split in half in the attack, the witnesses said.

They said that airstrikes also hit a family in a private car and a farmer driving a pick-up truck loaded with potatoes over the last 48 hours.

Saudi Arabia is continuing its brutal airstrikes against Yemen despite condemnation from some countries of the US-led Saudi aggression against the impoverished country.

The US-led Saudi military aggression against Yemen began on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.