Houthi rebels say at least 44 people killed in air strike near Yemeni capital

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Houthi-run health authorities say air strikes on Al-Shariya, east of Sanaa, killed at least 44 people, including 21 children and 10 women. The strikes also wounded 40 people, including children and women, in a deadly escalation of violence in Yemen.

The death toll from air strikes near Yemen’s capital has increased to 44, most of them women and children, health authorities from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said overnight. The strikes on the village of Al-Shariya, east of Sanaa, wounded 40 others, including eight children and nine women, said Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry. The dead included 21 children and 10 women, he said, making the strikes one of the deadliest attacks in the latest bout of violence in...