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A Saudi-led coalition air strike on a sewing workshop killed at least two people and wounded 15 in the rebel-held Yemeni capital yesterday, the factory owner said.
“Two employees, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed and 15 others wounded in the overnight air raid,” Faisal al-Musaabi said.
A search was underway for another employee still buried under the rubble of the building in the east of Sanaa, he added.
The coalition has been carrying out air strikes against Iran-backed rebels across Yemen since March.
The rebels, who have controlled Sanaa since September 2014, reported a higher death toll of 11 employees killed and four others wounded in the strike on the workshop, according to their sabanews.net website.
Meanwhile, a United Arab Emirates soldier was killed and another was wounded while fighting in Yemen as part of the coalition, state news agency WAM reported yesterday, citing the army general command.
The coalition is fighting to stop the Houthis, allies of Riyadh’s main regional foe Iran, from taking complete control of Yemen after they seized the capital Sanaa and advanced south towards the port city of Aden.
WAM did not give any more details.
More than 60 Saudi and Emirati troops were killed in September 2015 when a Tochka rocket hit the al-Safer air base near Marib in northeastern Yemen.
Saudi Arabia intercepted a Scud missile fired towards the kingdom by Houthis in Yemen, the coalition fighting the insurgents has said.
The official Saudi SPA news agency said the missile was destroyed by the kingdom’s air defences at around 2145 (1845 GMT) on Saturday, around 100km from its border with Yemen.
Houthi rebels meanwhile said in a statement on their sabanews.net website that the missile targeted the Abha Regional Airport in southern Saudi Arabia.
The missile “precisely hit its target,” it said.
Saturday’s incident is the third time Saudi Arabia says it has shot down a Scud fired from Yemen.
On Tuesday, the coalition said that a Saudi Patriot missile had downed a Scud fired from the rebel-held Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
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