SANAA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- A total of seven-member family were killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on the family's home in Yemen's northern province of Saada on Friday morning, a local security official and residents said.
The fresh airstrike hit the house in Al-Aslan village in Baqim district, demolishing the house to the ground and killing the whole family, including the husband, his wife and their five children, the official told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity.
The residents said the bodies pulled out from under rubble were charred.
The strike is the latest among a series of airstrikes on civilians in the war-torn Arab country since the coalition launched a large-scale air campaign against the rebels in Yemen more than two and a half years ago.
On Wednesday, the coalition airstrikes hit a hotel and adjourned popular market in nearby Sahar district in Saada, killing at least 29 civilians and wounding two dozens, mostly Khat sellers, workers and shops' owners, according to local officials, medics and residents.
Saada, which borders the oil-rich Saudi Arabia, is the main stronghold of the Iranian-allied Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebels whom Saudi Arabia considers a major threat to the kingdom's national security and the international navigation in the Red Sea.
In March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemeni conflict to back the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Houthi rebels, who seized most of the country's northern provinces, including the capital Sanaa.
More than 10,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, have been killed since the beginning of the war with over 3 million others displaced, according to UN agencies.
The country has also been hit by a deadly cholera epidemic and is on the brink of mass famine.
