Six other Yemenis suspected of links to the incident have been arrested, said the statement, which was carried by the official SPA news agency.
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Saudi authorities say a Yemeni national accused of killing a Saudi policeman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and may be linked to an attack previous year on security forces that killed 15 people.
At least 10 children were killed and another 28 were injured in the bombing of a school in Yemen on Saturday.
The office of the United Nations’ human rights office says deaths among civilians due to Yemen’s conflict have been “steadily mounting” with more than 200 people killed and more than 500 wounded in four months, including 50 in one week.
Mustapha said that the Saudi kingdom is using overwhelming military might, and supplied by the latest sophisticated weaponry from the West, to pound civilian targets in Yemen.
Yemen’s parliament has held its first session since the outbreak of conflict in the Arab country nearly two years ago, in a move to challenge the Saudi-backed resigned government.
Senior Houthi leader Saleh al-Sumad was elected as council president and Kasim Labuzah of former president’s General People’s Congress party as vice-president, according to Houthi-controlled Saba news agency.
The coalition launched its bombing campaign against Yemen in March a year ago in a bid to reinstall ousted president Abbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and this soon escalated to a ground invasion.
After peace talks collapsed last week, the Houthis and the GPC went on to set up a governing council to rule parts of the country they control.
A boy walks on rubble of a house after it was destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, August 11, 2016.
Saudi Arabia is involved in a 16 months-old war in neighbouring Yemen, where it leads a coalition that has intervened in support of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against Iran-allied Houthi forces that had deposed him.
Peace talks between Yemeni rebels and the US -backed, Saudi-allied government broke down on Saturday, Aug. 6.
The conflict in Yemen pits the internationally-recognized government backed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite rebels, who captured the capital in September 2014.
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The video also provides still pictures of the bodies of children presumably killed, some with dismembered limbs and covered with dust.
