28 Mar 2024
Thursday 10 September 2015 - 16:36
Story Code : 179889

Saudi airstrikes kill Yemeni beekeepers

Several Yemenicivilians, including beekeepers, have become the latest victims of the relentless deadly Saudi aggression against its impoverished southern neighbor.

Saudiwarplanes late on Wednesday pounded the central townBayhan, on the border between Shabwa and Marib provinces, hittinga honey farm and killingsix beekeepers and two other civilians, reports said on Thursday.

Other reports saidthat Saudi airstrikes bombarded a number of residential areas in the Yemeni capital,Sanaa, overnight.

No casualties were immediately reported.

Officials said the attacks forced the evacuation of hospitals nearby.

"The sick people fled the hospital in terror," an unnamed hospital official said. "They were afraid the building would collapse from the non-stop bombing of the army bases nearby."
On Wednesday, the capital witnessed the heaviest attacks in recent weeks, with at one point more than 20 attacks being carried out in less than half an hour.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Houthi members walk amidst the debris of a house destroyed in an air-strike by Saudi Arabia, in the capital Sana'a on July 3, 2015. (AFP photo)[/caption]

Earlier in the day, Yemeni media sources said 26 people had been killed in Saudi airstrikes which left tens of others wounded in Taizz Province.

Saudi warplanes also hit multiple positions in the provinces of Hajjah, Marib, and Saada.

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.

According to the United Nations, the conflict has so far left about 4,500 people dead and thousands of others wounded. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.

By Press TV
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