Saudi Warplanes Target Wedding Party in Yemen, Killing Seven Including Bride

Edited by Ivan Martínez
2015-06-15 14:17:53

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Sanaa, June 15 (RHC)-- A Saudi airstrike targeting a wedding party in Yemen has killed at least seven people, including the bride, in the country's northwestern province of Sa'ada. Saudi fighter jets bombarded the location of the marriage ceremony in the area of Jabel al-Haram in the district of Razeh in Sa'ada, al-Masirah TV reported.

Elsewhere in the province, eight people were killed in Saudi airstrikes on residential areas in the small town of Dammaj. All of the victims were women and children. Saudi warplanes also pounded the areas of Beit Naem and al-Garzeh in the district of Hamdan in the province of Sanaa, killing at least two children and injuring six other people.

Saudi fighter jets targeted the residential area of al-Miad in Sanaa several times. At least 69 people were reportedly killed and injured in the attacks. The Yemeni Health Ministry announced earlier that Saudi Arabia has been using banned weapons during the military campaign against Yemen, which started on March 26th.

Saudi fighter jets also bombarded the Yemeni city of Ta'izz, the capital of a southwestern Yemeni province with the same name, killing seven people, including women and children. Saudi warplanes hit a military base in the southwestern province of Dhamar.

In response to the deadly air raids, the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, targeted the Saudi army bases along the border with Yemen, destroying the military vehicles positioned there. The Yemenis also fired more than 40 rockets on a number of military sites, including, Radeef military base, in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Jizan border region.



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