Airstrike kills 36 bottling factory workers as coalition targets rebel forces

More than 30 civilians have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike at a factory in northern Yemen. They died when the bottling plant was hit on Sunday morning, said witness Issa Ahmed, who lives in Hajjah province. “The process of recovering bodies is finished now,” he added.

The corpses of 36 workers, many of them burnt or in pieces, were pulled out after an airstrike hit the plant this morning.

Issa Ahmed

The Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen conflict in March and has staged an aerial campaign that has wiped out territorial gains made by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. On Friday, air raids killed 65 people in Taiz - most of them civilians - and last month 65 people including 10 children were killed after a milk factory was hit in Western Yemen. Human rights group Amnesty International said earlier this month that the Saudi-led campaign has left a “bloody trail of civilian death”, which could amount to war crimes.

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