Arab coalition warplanes bombed a security complex near the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah earlier today, killing 60 people including inmates of a prison on the site, a regional official, relatives and medical sources said.
The prison in the city's al-Zaydiyah district was holding 84 inmates when it was struck three times late on Saturday, Hashemal-Azizi, Deputy Governor of the Houthi rebel-controlled Hodeidah province of the same name, told Reuters.
Local officials said the site lies within a security complex for the area guarded by Houthi militiamen but that only prison security guards were present during the night-time air strike.
The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Yemen's armed Houthi movement since March 2015 to try to restore the internationally recognised President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was driven into exile by the Iran-allied group in late 2014.
A Reuters witness at the security complex said the entire building was destroyed and medics pulled about 17 bodies away -many of them missing limbs - while others remained stuck under the rubble.
[rte.ie]
30/10/16
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The prison in the city's al-Zaydiyah district was holding 84 inmates when it was struck three times late on Saturday, Hashemal-Azizi, Deputy Governor of the Houthi rebel-controlled Hodeidah province of the same name, told Reuters.
Local officials said the site lies within a security complex for the area guarded by Houthi militiamen but that only prison security guards were present during the night-time air strike.
The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Yemen's armed Houthi movement since March 2015 to try to restore the internationally recognised President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was driven into exile by the Iran-allied group in late 2014.
A Reuters witness at the security complex said the entire building was destroyed and medics pulled about 17 bodies away -many of them missing limbs - while others remained stuck under the rubble.
[rte.ie]
30/10/16
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