12 killed in US airstrike on residential area in Yemen

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday.

The deaths mark the latest in the United States’ intensified campaign of strikes targeting the rebels. The U.S. military’s Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Houthis described the strike as hitting the Farwa neighborhood market in Sanaa’s Shuub district. That area has been targeted before by U.S. forces.

According to the source, emergency and civil defense workers continue to search for victims under the rubble of houses destroyed by the strikes.

Earlier, the US air force struck the Ras Issa oil port in the western Hodeidah province of Yemen, as a result of which, according to the latest data, 80 people were killed and more than 150 were injured.