Houthi media said on Saturday that Saudi strikes killed 22 people, including women and children, in Yemen's Sanaa province, following the return of the country's dormant civil war.

"Martyrdom of citizens, among them women and children, in Saudi enemy airstrikes" on homes in the Al-Shariyah area of Sanaa province, the Houthis' Saba news agency said, adding that dozens more were wounded.

It said operations to recover victims from the rubble were ongoing and that "aircraft targeted paramedics with two strikes".

Saudi authorities have not commented on the report.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said its air defenses shot down a Houthi cruise missile targeting the capital Riyadh.

On Friday, an attack on a market in Taiz province killed 30 people. The Houthis said Saudi airstrikes were to blame, while Yemen's government forces accused the Iran-allied group of having fired a ballistic missile at the site.

Yemen slipped back into war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government in July after years of relative calm, opening a new front in the conflict in the Middle East.

Since then, Saudi Arabia has regularly bombed Houthi positions, while the group has multiplied its attacks against the oil-rich kingdom. (AFP/Reuters)





Edited by Azam Khan