Strike on Yemen market in Taiz kills seven, wounds 40 as rival sides blame each other
Seven people were killed and 40 wounded in a strike on a market in Yemen's Taiz province on Sunday, the Houthi-run health ministry said; Yemen's government said its forces had hit a Houthi military camp at the same junction.
Seven people were killed and 40 wounded, including children, in a strike on a market in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province on Sunday, the country’s Houthi-run health ministry said.
Al-Masirah television, affiliated with the Iran-backed rebels, reported that the strike hit shops near a market, broadcasting footage of thick smoke and a destroyed warehouse filled with food supplies. The Houthi health ministry accused Saudi-backed forces of deliberately targeting civilian sites. Earlier, Al-Masirah said a Saudi fighter jet had targeted the area.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government gave a different account, saying its forces had targeted a Houthi military camp and vehicles at the same junction. Three military sources told Reuters that Houthi militants had recently established a military camp near the market. The reported strike followed attacks on Houthi fighters and weapons depots in eastern and southern Taiz on Saturday.
The competing accounts could not be independently verified.
Taiz, a major city controlled by the internationally recognised government, has been thrust to the front lines of fighting between the Houthis and government forces. Yemen’s war reignited in July amid the widening regional conflict; fighting intensified in September as the Houthis seized Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, including the Bab al-Mandab Strait. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia said it intercepted two Houthi drones heading towards Riyadh.
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