CAIRO (AP) — Workers in war-torn Yemen have recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, raising the death toll to at least 87, a foreign aid organization said Sunday.
Meanwhile, internet access remained largely reduced after another Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a telecommunications hub in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Friday, according to advocacy group NetBlocks. The medium is the key to connecting Yemen to the Internet.
Ahmed Mahat, head of the Médecins Sans Frontières project in Yemen, said rescuers had finished their search efforts on Saturday night at the criminal site in Yemen’s northern Sa’ada province, a Houthi stronghold on the border with Saudi Arabia.
He said another 266 people were wounded in the airstrike, an intense air and ground escalation in the country’s civil war.
The standoff in Yemen began in 2014, when Iranian-subsidized Houthis seized the capital, Sana’a, and much of northern Yemen, forcing the government to flee south and then go into exile in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi-led coalition, subsidized at the time through the United States, went to war months later in an attempt to repair the passage to power.