Saudi air raid claims 12 in Yemen’s Ibb province

At least 12 people have been killed in the latest Saudi airstrike in Yemen’s Ibb province, Medical sources say.

According to the Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network, the civilians were killed as Saudi warplanes targeted a stadium and residential areas in southwestern city of Ibb early on Monday.

As the offensive entered its 19th consecutive day, Saudi planes also targeted Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, which is a stronghold of Yemeni revolutionaries, and the Sarwah countryside hospital in the city of Ma’rib, located about 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the capital Sana'a. 

Raids also claimed over a dozen people in the southwestern Taizz province and parts of Amran province.

According to the Saudi military, helicopter gunships have been deployed near the border with Yemen following the death of three Saudi soldiers during clashes with Yemeni forces on Friday.

Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26 without a UN mandate in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s former fugitive president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.  

According to sources close to the Ansarullah movement, at least 1,000 people, including 200 children, have been killed in Yemen since the beginning of the Saudi aggression.  

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