Coalition launches intensive airstrikes on Houthi sites in Sanaa

A Saudi-led coalition yesterday pounded Houthi positions in the Yemeni capital Sanaa including homes which had been converted to prisons, witnesses and security sources said.

The sources told Turkey’s Anadolu Agency that coalition warplanes launched airstrikes against 25 Houthi held sites in Sanaa focusing mainly on the Al-Dailami air base, the Al-Haffa military camp and the aviation college.

According to the sources the coalition warplanes also targeted the house of former military commander, Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, which was seized by the Houthis and transformed into a prison.

The death toll from the airstrikes was not immediately known, but witnesses told the news agency that the strikes left many dead and wounded.

Meanwhile, Houthi rebels said as many as 12 civilians were killed and 54 others wounded in the coalition airstrikes against the city of Yarim in Ibb province, central Yemen.

Yemen News Agency-SABA reported that the raids targeted a residential neighbourhood in central Yarim with four missiles resulting in damages to six houses, killing 12 civilians including women and children and injuring 54 others.