DUBAI – Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen’s presidentialpalace in the centre of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa early onMonday, killing at least six people, Houthi-run media reported.
The coalition, which entered Yemen’s war in 2015 to push back Houthifighters who had taken over large parts of the country, said it had meantto hit senior Houthi leaders.
“First and second rank Houthi leadership were targeted,” coalitionspokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told reporters in Riyadh, withoutconfirming any casualties.
Two air strikes damaged the palace as well as houses and businesses nearbyin the city’s central Tahrir district, the SABA news agency reported.
Abu Dhabi-based Sky News Arabia said two Houthi leaders, including MohammedAli al-Houthi, the head of the group’s supreme revolutionary committee,were inside the palace at the time, but did not say what happened to them.
The Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said at least six people were killed and morethan 30 wounded in the strikes. – Agencies