Houthi media said on Saturday that Saudi strikes killed 22 people, most of them women and children, in Yemen’s Sanaa province, as deaths mount in the country’s civil war.
The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed in the impoverished country.
“The number of victims of the Saudi enemy warplane massacre in the Al-Shariyah area… has risen to 22 citizens, most of them children and women, while the number of wounded has risen to 30,” the Houthis’ Saba news agency said.
The Iran-backed group’s Al-Masirah TV provided the same toll.
Saba said earlier Saturday that operations to recover victims from the rubble were ongoing and that “aircraft targeted paramedics with two strikes”.
Al-Masirah broadcast footage that it says was filmed in Al-Shariyah, showing smoke rising from a struck site, piles of debris and wounded people in hospital.
Saudi Arabia, fighting in Yemen in support of the internationally recognised government, has not commented on the report.
The Saudi-led coalition in a statement on Saturday said it had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi missile launched towards Riyadh province.
On Friday, an attack on a market in Taiz province killed 30 people. The Houthis said Saudi airstrikes were to blame, while Yemen’s government forces accused the Iran-backed group of having fired a ballistic missile at the site.
Yemen slipped back into war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government in July after years of relative calm, opening a new front in the conflict in the Middle East.
Since then, Saudi Arabia has regularly bombed Houthi positions, while the group has multiplied its attacks against the oil-rich kingdom.
