Seven-Member Family Killed in Saudi Airstrike in Yemen

Date: 23 September 2019 - 22:48

News ID: ۷۰۸۲۱

SANAA (Dispatches) – At least seven people of a family were killed when Saudi-led coalition air strike hit the family house and adjoining mosque in Yemen's northern province of Amran early on Monday, local medics said.
The victims included four children, one medic told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity.
The house and the mosque were reduced to the ground by three airstrikes, said the residents.
Earlier reports said five civilians were killed and two others went missing after the attack. But the death toll rose after the bodies of two children were recovered from the rubble of the targeted mosque.
According to the report, the Saudi warplanes have carried out 11 airstrikes on the province over the past hours.
The attacks come despite a call by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement for cessation of strikes.
A Houthi official on Friday said the movement would stop targeting Saudi territories with drones and ballistic missiles, hoping Riyadh would reciprocate the gesture.
President of the Supreme Political Council in the Yemeni capital Mahdi al-Mashat, however, warned that the Yemenis "would not hesitate to launch a period of great pain” if their call for peace were ignored.
On Friday, Saudi Arabia launched a military operation against the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah in violation of a 2018 UN-brokered ceasefire agreement after the heart of the kingdom's oil industry came under a brazen attack.
It less than a week after the Yemeni forces launched retaliatory drone attacks on two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility.
Attacks by 10 Yemeni drones on the key oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais on September 14 shut down about 50 percent of the kingdom’s crude and gas production, cutting the state oil giant’s crude oil supply by around 5.7 million barrels per day.