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At least 20 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, a Yemeni health official said on Monday.
The number of known casualties from Sunday’s airstrikes is likely to increase as rescue operations continue, a spokesman for the Houthi-controlled Health Ministry, Abdel-Karim al-Kahlani, told dpa.
On Sunday, Yemeni medical sources said that jets belonging to the Saudi-led coalition carried out two raids on a wedding party in the province of Hajjah.
Most of Hajjah, 123 kilometres north-west of the capital Sana’a, is under the control of the Houthi militia.
Yemen has been embroiled in a conflict between the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-backed Houthis since late 2014.
Fighting intensified in March 2015, when the Houthis advanced on the government’s temporary capital of Aden, prompting Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies to start an air campaign against the Shiite group.
The Saudis fear that the rebels will give their regional rival, Shiite Iran, a strategic foothold in the Arabian Peninsula.
dpa