Fresh Saudi airstrikes leave over dozen civilians martyred in Yemen

More than a dozen civilians have been martyred and several others injured when Saudi military aircraft carried out separate airstrikes against residential areas across Yemen as the Riyadh regime does not shy away from its atrocious bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Saudi warplanes targeted a school in the northwestern city of Sa'ada, located 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of the capital Sana'a, on Wednesday afternoon, leaving 11 people martyred and eight others injured.

The sources added that there were women and children among the martyred civilians.

Separately, two people lost their lives when Saudi jets launched an aerial attack against Akwan area of al-Safra district in the Province of Sa’ada.

Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.

More than 13,000 people have been martyred since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.

The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen.

According to the World Health Organization’s latest count, the cholera outbreak has killed 2,167 people since the end of April and is suspected to have infected 841,906.

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