Saudi-led airstrikes hit trucks carrying food, medicine in central Yemen

A series of airstrikes by the Saudi-led military coalition have hit trucks carrying imported food and medicine in Yemen’s Central Province of al-Bayda, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its devastating onslaught against the impoverished Arab country.

Three drivers were injured and a number of people, including foreign nationals, went missing as the shipments owned by local traders went up in flames, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

The report added that the bombing happened on Saturday morning, when the trucks were awaiting at a customs zone recently established in the Afar area of the province.

The Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, later denounced the Saudi-led air raid as a premeditated war crime.

“The Saudi-US aircraft are prolonging the crisis through several escalatory means, including a spate of dawn air raids on Afar customs center in al-Bayda Province, which left several people dead and injured and set a number of trucks loaded with food and basic commodities ablaze,” Houthi wrote in a post published on his Twitter page on Saturday.

He added that acts of aggression and massacre of civilians are the most heinous crimes that enemies have perpetrated during the past few years against Yemen.

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