Airstrike targets police facility in Yemen’s capital

Policemen and medics remove debris as they search for victims at the site of a Saudi-led air strike …

Saudi-led coalition jets have struck a police headquarters in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa, leaving many dead and wounded, rescuers said Monday.

According to AP, the building was partially used as a gathering point for security forces.

The air strike happened shortly before midnight on Sunday, according to the officials.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Beginning bombing Yemen in March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has been repeatedly accused of inflicting airstrikes on civilian installations in Yemen.

Meanwhile, the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a Nairobi-based humanitarian news agency, has announced the death of one of its contributors in Yemen.

In a statement it said Almigdad Mohammed Ali Mojalli, 35, was killed on Sunday just outside Sanaa in an “apparent” air strike.

Yemen’s army in the southern city of Aden launched yesterday a campaign targeting suspected secret arms stores belonging to Al Qaida and Daesh in the city’s Breqa district also known as Little Aden, a day after police found a big arms depot in a villa in the same area, residents and officials said. Local fighters backed by troops from Persian Gulf nations cleared the mainly Shiite Houthi rebels, who control the capital Sanaa, from Aden in July.Hadi and his Saudi-backed government later returned to the city from exile in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but have been unable to prevent a series of assassinations by Islamic State militants, who last month claimed responsibility for a auto bomb attack that killed the provincial governor.