At least 44 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in airstrikes that hit homes in a village east of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, Houthi health authorities said late on Sunday.
The strikes hit al-Shariya village in the Bani Hushaysh district on Saturday. Forty other people were wounded, including eight children and nine women, said Anees al-Asbahi, spokesperson for the Houthi-run Health Ministry. Twenty-one children and 10 women were among the dead.
Rescue teams were still searching the area for missing people, raising fears that the death toll could rise further.
Mr al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for the strikes. Saudi Arabia has not publicly confirmed responsibility for the attack, and the reported toll could not be independently verified.
The strikes are among the deadliest attacks in the latest round of fighting in Yemen’s civil war. A truce agreed in 2022 collapsed in July, restarting fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government. The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since the fighting resumed.
The strikes came a day after an attack on a market in southern Yemen killed at least 30 people, according to Houthi authorities.
Source: The Associated Press, via The Hindu — https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/houthi-rebels-say-at-least-44-killed-in-airstrike-near-yemeni-capital/article71683574.ece
