At least 27 people, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on a wedding party in south western Yemen.
A local resident said 12 women, eight children and seven men died in the air strike, which struck two tents in the village of al-Wahijah, near the Red Sea port city of Al-Mokha, where a wedding for a local man affiliated with Yemen's dominant Houthi group. A local official put the death toll at 30.
Residents described mutilated bodies from the attack. A number of other casualties were rushed to a nearby hospital, they said.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment.
Yesterday's air strike came a day after helicopters from the Saudi-led coalition struck houses in a village in northern Yemen, killing at least 30 people, most of them civilians.
A Saudi-led coalition has been pounding the Iran-allied Houthi group from the air for six months, trying to eject it from the capital Sanaa it seized a year ago and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
The village of al-Wahijah is located in Taiz province, which the Houthis captured in March as they began advancing on the southern port city of Aden, where Hadi was based before he was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia.
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