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Eight more civilians die in Saudi airstrikes on Yemen

A vendor tries to salvage goods from under the rubble of shops following a Saudi airstrike on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, on July 20, 2015. © AFP

At least eight civilians have been killed and 20 others wounded in fresh Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.

Yemen's al-Masirah TV network reported on Saturday that Saudi warplanes bombarded the province of Lahij in the southwest of the impoverished Arab country.

The airstrikes also targeted an administrative building in the Harad district of the northwestern Hajjah Province, but no reports of fatalities were immediately available.

Reports said Saudi warplanes launched aerial attacks on the positions of the Houthi Ansarullah fighters in the central province of Ma'rib. The strikes reportedly claimed the lives of over two dozen Ansarullah fighters.

Yemeni men stand amid the ruins of buildings destroyed in a Saudi airstrike on Sana’a on July 16, 2015. © AFP

The Saudi aircraft also pounded sites in the northern province of Sa'ada and a district located between the southern provinces of Bayda and Abyan.

Retaliatory strikes

Meanwhile, according to Yemeni sources, several Saudi soldiers were killed in new retribution attacks by Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units on the border regions inside Saudi Arabia.

Three soldiers were killed when Ansarullah and their allies shelled the Dhahran al-Janub region in Saudi Arabia. Eight others were reportedly wounded. A fourth soldier lost his life in clashes in the Jizan region.

Ansarullah fighters and allied army units have also in a separate operation taken over a Saudi military base in Jizan. There has been no report on possible casualties but several armored vehicles are reported to have been destroyed.

Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.

Meanwhile, an Aden airport source, whose name was not mentioned in an AFP report, said on Saturday that the former prime minister, Khaled Bahah, who had fled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year, arrived in the southern port city of Aden on a Saudi military plane. Several other officials reportedly followed him.

Sources close to Bahah said he would stay in Aden for a few hours and then leave for an undisclosed destination.

According to the United Nations, the conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 4,000 people, half of them civilians, since late March, while 80 percent of the impoverished country's population needs aid and protection.


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