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Saudi-led coalition: Major combat in Yemen coming to an end UN in Yemen says death toll in Tuesday’s strike is now 119
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CAIRO — A spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition says that major combat operations in Yemen are coming to an end, after which the coalition will work on “long-term” plans to bring stability to the country. SANAA, Yemen — A senior U.N. official in Yemen says the death toll from an airstrike this week by the Saudi-led coalition on a market north of the capital, Sanaa, has nearly doubled, rising to 119.
Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Asiri told The Associated Press on Thursday that the coalition will continue to provide air support to Yemeni forces battling Shiite Houthi rebels and Islamic militants on the ground. The yearlong air campaign and ground assault was intended to roll back the Houthis, who seized the capital, Sanaa, in 2014 and still control it. Meritxell Relano, UNICEF’s deputy representative in Yemen, told The Associated Press on Thursday that there are 22 children among the dead. The airstrike on Tuesday in the town of Mastaba in Hajja province, northwest of Sanaa, also wounded 47 people.
Al-Asiri says the coalition is investigating reports of mass killings in northern Yemen after two Saudi-led airstrikes hit a market on Tuesday. The Houthi-controlled state news agency, SABA, said at least 65 people were killed and 55 wounded. The area is controlled by the Shiite rebels known as Houthis.
The rebel-controlled state news agency, SABA, said on Tuesday that 65 people were killed and 55 wounded in the attack, the latest in a series of similar bombings by the coalition that have killed hundreds of civilians.
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