14 killed in latest Yemen strike

Saudi-led coalition’s fighter jets rained bombs over the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, yesterday, levelling houses and killing at least 14 people, including eight members of a single family, relatives and witnesses said.

The family’s one-yearold baby was among those killed, they said, looking over the rubble of one of the bombed homes in the city’s Fag Attan district, hours after the attack.

The bombing was the latest in a significant escalation in the Saudi-led coalition’s air campaign in Yemen. On Wednesday, at least 41 people died when airstrikes hit a small hotel in the town of Arhab, north of Sanaa.

The attack prompted the United Nations to renew calls for an investigation into the atrocities in Yemen’s civil war. Over the past two years, more than 10,000 people have been killed and three million displaced amid the coalition’s campaign against Yemen’s Iran-backed Shiite rebels. The Saudi-led campaign is seeking to restore Yemen’s government back to power.