Saudi warplanes pound several areas in crisis-hit Yemen

Saudi fighter jets have conducted a fresh round of attacks against several areas across Yemen.

On Tuesday morning, Saudi fighter jets struck a commercial neighborhood of al-Rahidah district in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz, though no reports of casualties were available.

Saudi warplanes also launched two aerial attacks on the Selo district of the same province, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported.

Scores of civilians were also killed and injured as Saudi aircraft bombed the police department at the provincial capital city of Ta’izz, situated 260 kilometers (166 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a.

Early on Tuesday, Saudi jets launched airstrikes against a residential area in the Razeh district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada, leaving two civilians dead.

Late on Monday, Saudi warplanes pounded the Dar al-Shoja’ area in the Mokha port city, situated 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a, though no reports of casualties were available.