Air raid claims 8 women

EIGHT women and a child were killed in an overnight air raid on a funeral reception near Sanaa, medics in the Yemeni capital said yesterday.

At least 10 more women were reported wounded in the raid, which hit the women’s reception area at a funeral in Arhab district, 40km north of Sanaa. Medics dispatched to the incident identified the site as the residence of Mohammed Al Nakii in the village of Shiraa. Casualties were transported to hospitals in Sanaa.

Huthi rebels, who control the capital, accused a Saudi-backed coalition of carrying out the strike. — AFP