YEMEN Press Agency

2 civilians injured in 6 Saudi-led airstrikes on Sanaa

SANAA, Sept. 13 (YPA) – The US-backed Saudi-led coalition warplanes continued to escalate and launch raids on the capital, Sanaa, and its suburbs, until dawn on Sunday, and launched six other raids, causing civilian casualties.

Security and local sources confirmed that, “The coalition aircraft has again targeted the maintenance camp in  Al-Nahda neighborhood in Al-Thawra district, and launched three raids on Al-Arouq neighborhood in the Bani Al-Harith district.”

The sources pointed out that the escalation of the coalition warplanes caused civilian casualties as a result of “targeting it with two raids on a poultry farm in the Al Samaa area in Arhab district, causing the injury of two workers on the farm.”

The six strikes come as an extension of a series of raids launched by the coalition warplanes led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the context of its escalation, on the capital, Sanaa, and its environs in the Sana’a Governorate, after midnight on Saturday.

Local security sources told Yemen Press Agency that during the past hour, the coalition air forces launched 14 raids on the capital, Sanaa, and Arhab and Sanhan districts of Sana’a Governorate.

The sources said: “The coalition air forces launched 5 raids around Sanaa International Airport, and two raids on the maintenance corps camp in the Al-Nahda neighborhood in Al-Thawra District, north of the capital, Sana’a.”

The sources added: “The coalition air forces also launched 4 raids on the Al-Sama area in the Arhab district of Sana’a Governorate, targeting the bombed camps with hundreds of strikes since 2015.”

The source continued: “The coalition’s air strikes on the capital, Sanaa, and its environs, included three raids on Haziz area in Sanhan district of Sanaa province, targeting camps that it had previously bombed.”

The Saudi-Emirati war alliance resumed its raids on the capital, Sanaa, and its environs at dawn on Saturday, by launching six raids on the Military Engineering Department in Sawan neighborhood of Shoub District.

Also, the coalition warplanes launched a raid, at dawn on Saturday, on a citizen’s farm in Saraf neighborhood in the Bani Hasheesh district, Sanaa province, claiming to target stores of missiles and drones.”

The raids of the Saudi-Emirati coalition air forces on the capital, Sanaa, and its suburbs coincide with the resumption of the army and the popular committees’ operations to deter the coalition with attacks on the Saudi depth.