Saudi-led coalition says it bombed Houthi arms site in Yemen, group says prison hit

A Saudi-led military coalition said on Sunday it had launched air strikes on Hou...

DUBAI - A Saudi-led military coalition said on Sunday it had launched air strikes on Houthi military targets in southwest Yemen that Houthi-run media said had hit a prison, killing dozens of people.

Residents told Reuters there had been six air strikes and that a complex in the city being used as a detention center had been hit. The Western-backed alliance intervened in Yemen in March 2015 against the Houthis after they ousted the internationally recognized government from power in the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014.

Al Masirah quoted the head of the Houthis’ national committee for prisoner affairs, Abdul Qader al-Mortada, as saying the detention center in Dhamar housed 170 prisoners.

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