Last month, at least 11 people were killed and 19 injured in an airstrike that destroyed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen.
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On Thursday, the coalition warplanes killed nine civilians from three families, including four children, in Yemen’s northern province of Amran, some 60 km north of Sanaa.
“The warplanes launched five airstrikes against the residents’ houses and farms this morning and resumed with other three strikes when rescue teams approached the area to try to rescue possible survivors, killing or injuring many of them”, the offical told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, General Ahmed al-Asseri, said “all operations in the area were targeting Houthi positions and members”. The coalition, which is trying to restore former President Hadi to power, says it does not target civilians.
Fighting has intensified since the collapse of UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait on August 6.
Local media put the number of dead and wounded at the water-drilling site at around 100 and published pictures of burned bodies and mangled equipment.
In the second attack on Saturday, residents reported an air strike at the home of Sheikh Maqbool al-Harmali.
Six other civilians were killed on Saturday in a coalition air strike on a house in Haidan, a town in Hajja province, northwest of Sanaa, the rebels said.
At least 10,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the airstrikes and battles, and about three million are displaced.
In an Eid message, Hadi said: “We will not allow Iran to turn Yemen into an arena for the blackmail of neighbors”.
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Groups including Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and ISIL have carried out previous attacks in the region.
