Air strikes by helicopters from a Saudi-led alliance
killed 25 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, residents and medics
said, adding that most of the victims were women and children.
“People
were fleeing their homes as the helicopters pursued, they committed a
massacre for no reason,” one resident, who called himself Khaled, told
Reuters by phone.
The incident in the village of Bani
Zela, in Yemen’s Red Sea border area with Saudi Arabia, comes a day
after the kingdom announced that three of its officers, including a
general, had been killed along the frontier.
Targeting Huthis
An
Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been pounding the Iran-allied
Huthi militia in Yemen from the air for six months, trying to eject the
group from the capital Sana’a and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour
Hadi to power.
The campaign has resulted in several
mass killings of civilians, including 36 people at a water bottling
plant in August and 25 workers at a milk factory in April.
Escalation in combat?
The
attack on Bani Zela may signal an escalation in combat along the
border. The target of the strikes was unclear and a spokesman for the
alliance could not be immediately reached for comment.
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