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Residents: 20 Dead in Airstrike in Southwestern Yemen

by Reuters

   DUBAI --

   Twenty people were killed in an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition in
   southwestern Yemen on Friday, residents said.

   They said the airstrike hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of
   Taiz province. They said six bodies had been identified but the rest
   were charred beyond recognition.

   A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition did not immediately respond to
   a Reuters request for comment.

   The coalition intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 against the
   Iran-aligned Houthis who ousted the internationally recognized
   government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Houthis now control
   the capital Sanaa.

   Coalition airstrikes have repeatedly struck civilian targets while
   trying to target Houthi forces during the three-year war. The coalition
   says it does not target civilians.

   Houthi fighters killed two people, including a woman, and wounded four
   others Friday in an attack north of Taiz, residents and medical sources
   said.

   The Yemen war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2
   million and driven the country to the verge of famine, according to the
   United Nations.