Saudi-led Airstrike Kills 15, Injures Dozens at Yemeni Wedding
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 15 civilians were killed and 25 wounded in two Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a wedding party in Yemen hosted by a tribal leader, an alleged supporter of the Houthis, according to media reports.
It was the second wedding targeted in two weeks.
The strikes targeted the home of the tribal leader in Sanban, a region in Dhamar province 113 km (70 miles) southeast of the capital, Sana’a, independent security officials and witnesses were quoted by AP as saying.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Witnesses declined to give their names for fear of reprisals.
Three of Sanabani’s sons were to be married off on Wednesday evening. The strikes hit the house as the brides were arriving at the ceremony, RT cited witnesses as saying.
The hit on the wedding comes just a day after Saudi-led coalition helicopters killed more than 30 people, mainly civilians, in a northern Yemeni village.
The strike was the second to hit a wedding in Yemen in just over a week. On September 28, 135 civilians were killed at a wedding party in a Saudi airstrike, marking the deadliest single bombing in Yemen’s civil war.
Yemen's defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition led by the Saudi regime for more than six months.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies, including the UAE, began to launch deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
More than 4000 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab country so far.