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SANAA, March 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 16 shoppers and sellers were killed when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit Khokha market in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Friday evening, a medic and security official said.
"Altogether 16 persons were confirmed killed and 10 others wounded," the medic in Hodeidah hospital told Xinhua. "They were all civilians."
The security official said the victims were shoppers and sellers, as many shops were completely burned up to the ground.
This is the latest in a series of airstrikes hitting Yemeni civilians since the war began in 2015.
Last month, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni dominant Houthi rebels killed at least 11 women in an airstrike on a funeral house north of the capital Sanaa.
Also last month, the Saudi-led airstrikes killed a family of six in the Red Sea coast city of Mokha in neighbouring province of Taiz.
Since March 2015, the coalition has been fighting the dominant Houthi rebels, who have seized control of most of northern Yemen, including Sanaa, to restore power to the expelled, internationally recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, half of them civilians, and displaced over two millions, according to humanitarian agencies.
