Saudi airstrike kills 3 Yemeni children, critically injures parents
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Yemenis inspect the damage following an airstrike by Saudi Arabia in the capital, Sana’a, on February 27, 2016. ©AFP
At least three children from a single family have been killed after Saudi fighter jets bombed a residential building in Yemen’s Southern Province of Abyan.
According to Press TV, the air raid hit the building in the village of al-Shamil, located in Abyan’s district of Wuday’, early on Tuesday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported.
The children’s parents are said to have been critically injured in the assault.
A day earlier, Saudi warplanes repeatedly pounded the Kahlan military base in the Province of Sa’ada. The Harad district in the Northwestern Province of Hajjah also came under similar attacks.
Meanwhile, Yemeni forces responded to the Saudi attacks, targeting the Ma’azab military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan with rockets and destroying several military vehicles there.
Yemeni troops, backed by Ansarullah fighters, also fired Katyusha rockets at a military convoy in the Saudi military base of Sababa in the same region.
Riyadh’s new airstrikes come in defiance of a UN-backed ceasefire between the Yemeni warring sides, which took effect in April.
The impoverished Arabian Peninsula country has seen relentless military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with internal sources putting the martyrdom toll from the aggression at about 10,000.
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