Source: Xinhua| 2018-10-02 23:14:15|Editor: yan

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SANAA, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- A family of three members were killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen's rebel-held northwestern province of Hajjah on Tuesday, a local hospital official said.

"A father, mother and their daughter were killed in a pre-dawn coalition airstrike on the family's house in Al-Hamra area," the official of Hajjah al-Jumohory hospital told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity.

The Al-Hamra area is located in the Mustaba district, about two-hour drive to the north of Hajjah provincial capital city, which bears the same name.

The area is also one-hour drive to the southern Saudi border of Jazan, where the fighting has intensified in the border front.

The attack was the latest in a series of recent airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen.

The International Committee of Red Cross said that 40 children were among 51 people killed on the Aug. 9 airstrike on a school bus in the nearby northern province of Saada.

Saudi Arabia leads an Arab military coalition that has intervened in the Yemen war since 2015 to support the government of exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The war has killed more than 10,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, and displaced 3 million others, according to UN aid agencies.