25 Apr 2024
Monday 28 September 2015 - 16:06
Story Code : 182211

Saudi strikes hit Yemen wedding party, kill several women

A number of women have been killed after a Saudi airstrike on a wedding party in the southwestern province of Taizz as more civilians fall victim to the kingdom's military aggression against its impoverished southern neighbor.

Yemen's al-Masirah news channel reported on Monday that the attack hit awedding ceremony inthe port city of Mocha.

Saudi fighter jets targeted a market in Razih district in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada, al-Masirahreported. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties in theattack.

Saudi warplanes also targeted areas in east and south of the capital, Sanaa.

Saudi jets also reportedly targeted Yemen's central province of Ma'rib over 25 times.

On Sunday, more than 40 Yemenis, mostly women and children, were killed as Saudi jets pounded areas in Hajjah and Taizz provinces.

Meanwhile, Yemen's popular committees, backed byAnsarullah fighters, on Monday launched fresh attacks on Saudi positions in retaliation against the Riyadh regimes airstrikes.

The allied Yemeni forces fired a barrage of rockets at a military base in Saudi Arabias Jizan region. Three Saudi armored vehicles were also destroyed in another attack in the same region.

A report by al-Ahd newswebsite also said thatthe Yemenis had killed and injuredtens of pro-Saudi militants in Ma'rib and destroyed tenvehicles belonging to them.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] The picture taken on September 17, 2015, shows a Yemeni boy standing in the rubble of buildings, which were destroyed during Saudi airstrikes, in the capital, Sanaa. (AFP photo)[/caption]

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

According to a report released on September 19 by the Yemens Civil Coalition, over 6,000 Yemenis have so far lost their lives in the airstrikes, and a total of nearly 14,000 people have been injured.

By Press TV
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