Saudi-led coalition says Houthi attacks wounded 73 civilians
The coalition says attacks on civilian and economic sites in four southern Saudi locations injured women and children, though the claim has not been independently verified.
Saudi Arabia’s Saudi-led coalition says recent Houthi attacks on civilian and economic sites in the kingdom’s southern provinces wounded 73 civilians, including women and children.
Coalition spokesperson Major-General Turki al-Maliki said the reported attacks affected Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran. He did not specify when the attacks occurred or provide further details about the individual incidents.
Al-Maliki described the attacks as a dangerous escalation and said the coalition would take operational measures against the sources of the threat. The statement came as fighting intensified between the Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces across several provinces in Yemen.
The casualty figure and account of the attacks were reported by the Saudi-led coalition and have not been independently verified in the supplied material.
The Houthis have separately accused Saudi Arabia of an air strike on a detention facility in al-Hazm, in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, alleging that seven people, including a child, were killed and at least seven others wounded. Saudi Arabia had not commented on that allegation when the report was published.
