Yemen airstrikes News
Rescue workers were still pulling bodies out of the rubble around midday following the dawn strike on the temporary detention centre in Saada in north Yemen.
The victims were killed in the airstrike on Saturday (February 15) that targeted a gathering of people at the site where a Tornado warplane of the Saudi-led coalition crashed in Al-Masloub district in the southwest of Al-Jawf, according to a local tribal source.
If confirmed, the Tuesday`s attack was the latest in a series of airstrikes that resulted in the deaths of civilians in Yemen.
The security sources said air strikes on Thursday and Friday hit five towns controlled by the Huthis around 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Hodeida.
An official news agency controlled by Yemen's Houthi rebels says 12 civilians have been killed in two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in a northern province.
In "self defence", three US warships on Thursday fired cruise missiles at a radar installations in Yemen that the Pentagon claimed was used by Yemeni insurgents to target another American warship earlier in.
At least 19 people have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes between pro-government forces and rebels in Yemen's south, military sources said on Saturday.
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