37 killed as Saudi jets hit dairy farm

SANAA: at least 37 of civilians were reported dead Wednesday after a dairy plant was bombed in Yemen, as aid groups warned of a brewing humanitarian crisis from Saudi-led strikes.

Fugitive Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin called for the coalition to send ground troops, saying that “at some stage air strikes will be ineffective”.

Rights groups have voiced growing alarm about civilian casualties from the nearly week-old air war aimed at preventing the fall of US backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

At least 37 workers were killed and 80 wounded overnight at the dairy in the port city of Hodeida after the the factory was hit by an air strike, provincial governor Hasan al Hai said.

Part of the factory was destroyed and rescue teams were looking for survivors under the rubble, according to a medic at a Hodeida hospital that received the casualties.

The Saudi-led coalition bombarded rebel positions early Wednesday in Yemen’s main southern city Aden in a seventh night of raids that also targeted the capital and other areas.

Overnight strikes targeted rebel positions including camps of army units loyal to Saleh in the north of Aden, around Sanaa and in the central region of Ibb, residents said.

Six civilians were killed in an air raid targeting Maydi in the northwest province of Hajjah, according to medical sources.

Since Friday at least 93 civilians have been killed and 364 wounded, the UN human rights office said Tuesday.

“We have reports that the hospitals are really full of dead and injured people,” spokesperson Cecile Pouilly told AFP. “We have heard about lots of dead bodies.”

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