Alwaght- More than 25 people were killed in Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeting southern province of Taiz early on Tuesday security officials said.
An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition targeted Taiz that most of the victims were shoppers or storekeepers in the area that was hit, a commercial road that lies between two villages.
The Taiz attack came amid an uptick in coalition airstrikes Monday night and early Tuesday, the officials said, adding that the fighting also raged east of the capital, Sanaa. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to reporters.
Meanwhile, senior military commander Maj. Gen. Farag al-Bohsony said the death toll from a series of attacks Monday night in the southern city of Mukalla rose to 48. He said the attacks, blamed on Yemen's ISIS affiliate, also wounded 30 people.
Yemen, an impoverished Arab country, has been gripped by one of the most active regional al-Qeada insurgencies in the West Asia region and the affiliate of the ISIS.
The fragile security situation in the country has deteriorated since March 2015 following the Saudi-led illegal aggression on Yemen to oust the popular Ansarullah movement and restore to power fugitive president, Abdul Rabuh Mansour Hadi.
Nearly 10,000 Yemenis have been killed during the Saudi-led aggression, with the vast majority of them being innocent civilians including women and children.
The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, markets, schools, factories and mosques.
