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Saturday 19 September 2015 - 16:36
Story Code : 180980

Saudi jets kill 76 in fresh raids on Yemen

Unabated Saudi airstrikes have claimed the lives of at least 76 people, injuring around 130 others across the kingdoms impoverished southern neighbor, Yemen.

Saudi jets pummeled the Yemeni capital Sanaa over Friday and Saturday, killing 35 people and injuring more than 120 others. Yemen's Saba Net news agency said the number of the victims could rise due to the intensity of the attacks.

The aircraft targeted the Yemeni Interior Ministry building, public services facilitiesand residential buildings in the city.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Yemeni workers look at a destroyed chocolate factory targeted by airstrikes in the capital, Sanaa, on September 17, 2015 (AFP photo).[/caption]

 

Striking the Sirwah district in the Marib province in west-central Yemen, Saudi planes killed four civilians and left a number of people wounded.

The kingdoms warplanes attacked the Al Bayda province in southern Yemen, slaying a child and wounding two of the victims family members.

As many as 21 people were killed and two others wounded after the planes attacked a village in the northwestern Yemeniprovince of Saada.Saudi attacks also claimed the lives of 15 people and injured five others, targeting the provinces Bagim district

On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen without a UN mandate in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

The conflict has so far left about 5,200 people dead and thousands of others wounded, the UN says. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.

The Yemeni al-Masirah TV network, meanwhile, reported that Yemens Army and popular committees had struck two Saudi military vehicles in Jizan, killing six Saudi military personnel and injuring a number of others.

By Press TV
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