SANA, Yemen — Dozens of people, including many prisoners, were killed after airstrikes by a Saudi-led military coalition struck a security facility in western Yemen, local security officials and news reports said on Sunday.

The airstrikes late Saturday evening hit a security complex, which included detention facilities, in the port city of Al Hudaydah on Yemen’s Red Sea coast. The area is controlled by Houthi rebels, who hold much of the country’s north and west.

A security official in Al Hudaydah said three strikes had targeted the compound after sunset on Saturday, destroying two detention centers that held men jailed by local security services, which the Houthis oversee. Forty-eight people were killed, most of them prisoners, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the news media.

Saba, a Houthi-controlled news agency, said the strikes had killed 60 people and wounded dozens of others. Al-Maseera, the Houthis’ satellite news channel, broadcast images of bodies covered in blankets and plastic sheeting.