YEMEN Press Agency

Coalition launches 23 raids on Sanaa, Dhamar

SANAA, Jan. 26 (YPA) – The US-backed Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched intensive airstrikes on the capital, Sanaa and its nearby regions, security sources said on Wednesday .

According to the sources, the coalition warplanes carried out three raids on al-Nahdin area and two on the Al-Hafa area in Al-Sabeen district of the capital Sanaa.

Four airstrikes targeted the vicinity of the Ministry of Health and the Public Radio and Television Corporation in al-Nahda neighborhood of Al-Thawra district, the sources added.

Moreover, the coalition launched six raids on the Subaha area in Sanaa province, and four raids on the Garban area and Jabal Reed in Sanhan district.

In Dhamar, the Coalition warplanes again bombed the infrastructure of the province, through launching airstrikes on a communications tower next to Dhamar University, and two other towers in Jabal Azan in Utmah directorate, and in Jabal al-Za’ala in Wusab Al Ali district.

The raids came in light of an aerial escalation by the coalition, in which the Saudi-Emirati warplanes launched 46 raids in the past 24 hours targeting Marib, Taiz, Shabwa and Jawf provinces.

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