Saudi-led airstrikes target Sana’a International Airport

Saudi-led warplanes have pounded the international airport of the Yemeni capital Sana’a amid growing violence in the country.

According to media reports, Saudi airstrikes hit the passengers’ exit area of the airport.

Yemeni media also reported on Monday that Saudi-led attacks on the al-Arish district of the port city of Aden left four people dead. Several others also suffered injuries in the strikes that targeted a public vehicle.

On the same day, at least 40 people were killed and 200 others wounded in a Saudi airstrike against the al-Mazrak camp for displaced people in Yemen’s province of Hajjah.

Yemeni Houthi fighters and supporters take part in a demonstration on March 29, 2015 in the southwestern city of Taez against the Saudi invasion of the country. © AFP
Saudi Arabia’s air campaign in Yemen started on March 26 in a bid to restore power to fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.

He fled Aden to the Saudi capital of Riyadh after Ansarullah fighters advanced toward the southwestern Yemeni city, where he had sought to set up a rival power base, and where he withdrew his resignation.

The Saudi airstrikes, which have been launched without a UN mandate, entered their fifth consecutive day on Monday and have so far left dozens of people dead.