Saudi-led raids 'kill 20 civilians' in Yemen rebel port
Saudi-led aircraft bombed the Yemeni port city of Hudaida as Houthi rebels celebrated their capture of the capital Sanaa two years ago
A Yemeni boy stands on the rubble of a school destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike (AFP)
Published date: 22 September 2016 09:16 BST
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Saudi-led air strikes killed 20 civilians in the rebel-held Yemeni port city of Hudaida late on Wednesday just hours after the rebels celebrated the second anniversary of their seizure of the capital, a government official said.
The raids hit the Suq al-Hunod district of the Red Sea port, the official in the government of President Abd Rabbuh Hadi which is supported by the Saudi-led coalition told AFP.
The strikes were also reported by the rebel administration in the capital Sanaa, which reported civilian casualties without giving a specific toll.
The loyalist official said the residential neighbourhood was "probably hit in error".
He said the presidential palace in Hudaida was also hit.
Dr Khaled Suhail of Hudaida's Al-Thawra hospital said his facility alone received 12 dead and 30 wounded from the strikes.
The Saudi-led coalition has been repeatedly criticised for the high civilian death toll from its 18-month-old bombing campaign in support of Hadi's government.
More than 10,000 people have been killed since the intervention began, the majority of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
The intervention has pushed the rebels out of much of the south, but they remain in control of nearly all of Yemen's Red Sea coast as well as the capital Sanaa and much of the central and northern highlands.
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