Sep 25, 2016

A Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen killed nine members of the same family, including several children, on Sunday in the southwestern rebel-held city of Ibb, witnesses and medics said.

Eleven neighbours were also wounded when the family's house, on the southern edge of the mountain city, was hit during a night of intense air strikes, witnesses said.

Medics at the city's main hospital confirmed they had received nine bodies, including those of women and children.

The house was next to a vocational college that Iran-backed Huthi rebels have converted into a military base and arms depot, witnesses said.

The air strikes came amid growing international criticism of the Arab coalition over the mounting toll of civilian casualties in its campaign against the rebels.