Yemeni officials say Saudi-led warplanes bombed Shia rebel positions in a western city, setting off explosions and drawing return fire from anti-aircraft guns. Airstrikes also hit a factory in the city and 23 workers died there.
The bombings came as the Saudi-led campaign against Yemen’s Shia rebels entered its seventh day. The officials say the early Wednesday strikes targeted Hodeida, a port city on the country’s western, Red Sea coast controlled by rebels known as the Houthis.
The officials suspect the factory, which makes dairy products, was being used as a rebel weapons cache. It was not immediately known if the workers died from the airstrikes, return fire or subsequent explosions.
Published - April 01, 2015 04:05 pm IST
