YEMEN-SECURITY/TAIZ CLASHES Resident of Yemen's Taiz city says family killed in air raid

Record ID: 144879

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/TAIZ CLASHES Resident of Yemen's Taiz city says family killed in air raid
  • Date: 6th August 2015
  • Summary: TAIZ, YEMEN (AUGUST 5, 2015) (REUTERS) RESIDENTS SEARCHING THROUGH RUBBLE VARIOUS OF DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENTS WALKING AND ASSESSING DAMAGE AT SITE OF AIR STRIKE DAMAGED BUILDING MAN HOLDING A METAL FRAGMENT RESIDENTS LOOKING AT DAMAGED BUILDINGS LARGE HOLE IN DAMAGED BUILDING DAMAGED BUILDING MAN SHOWING IN HIS HAND PIECES OF SHRAPNEL FROM MISSILE (SOUNDBITE) (ARABIC) EY
  • Embargoed: 21st August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3529TDNVI9RS3JTMZAPA7BTH8
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Saudi-led coalition air strikes struck a house and several buildings in Yemen's central Taiz city on Wednesday (August 5).
    The Saudi-led alliance has been bombing Yemen's dominant Houthi rebel group since March, in support of the country's exiled leadership.
    President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi now seeks to re-establish his base from the southern port city of Aden.
    People gathered around the site of the air raid to take stock of the destruction.
    One man said several members of a family were killed.
    "Coalition planes struck the Saber and Damgha neighbourhoods and then struck a residential home whose residents have nothing to do with the Houthis," said eyewitness Hamdi Ahmed.
    "This whole area is in fact loyal to the resistance (Hadi loyalists). A whole family of five was killed," he said.
    Reuters could not independently confirm the casualties.
    The Houthi movement, hailing from a Shi'ite sect in Yemen's far north, seized the Yemeni capital Sanaa and much of the rest of the country in September.
    Southern forces loyal to the exiled government have been on the defensive in four months of fighting and bombing that have killed over 4,000 people, but have made lightning advances northward, seizing Yemen's biggest military base this week.
    Ali al-Ahmadi, a spokesman for anti-Houthi forces, told Reuters the Houthis were ejected from the key province of Lahej on Wednesday, bringing the number of southern provinces under anti-Houthi control to three.
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