Intense air strikes and ground battles have claimed lives of 176 fighters and civilians in war-torn Yemen on Monday. Houthi rebels claimed that it was the highest daily death toll since the air raids began more than three months ago in Yemen.
Foreign news agency reported that at least 63 people were killed in northern part of Amran province including 30 persons at a market while about 20 fighters and civilians were killed at a Houthi checkpoint outside the main city also named as Amran located in the northwest of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
Moreover, Saudi-led coalition air strikes killed 30 people including 10 Houthi fighters on the main road between Aden and Lahj while targeting a Houthi check post. Moreover, 60 people were killed at a livestock market in the town of al-Foyoush in the south.
Tribal sources in the central desert province of Marib said about 20 Houthi fighters and soldiers fighting alongside them were killed in air raids and gun battles with tribal fighters, who support Yemen’s president in exile Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
