Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen kills 26 people

A suspected airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen killed at least 26 people and wounded nine others in the country’s north, a Yemeni health official says.

Abdellah al-Ezi, head of the health office of the northern province of Saada, says the airstrike struck a small hotel in a market in the province, which lies on the border with Saudi Arabia. Saada is a stronghold of Iran-backed Shiite rebels known as Houthis.

The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition did not immediately respond to an Associated Press call for comment on the airstrike.

— AP

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