An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeted a building used by police in Yemens capital, Sanaa, killing at least 26 people and wounding about 15, Security officials said on Monday.
The officials, who are loyal to anti-government rebels known as the Houthis, said on Monday about 30 others were believed to still be trapped under the debris of the badly damaged building in central Sanaa.
Police vehicles parked in the facility’s courtyard were destroyed and nearby homes suffered some damage, the Associated Press news agency reported officials as saying.
The dead and wounded were policemen and Houthi led rebels, officials said.
Security forces sealed off the area as earth-moving equipment arrived to help with the search for bodies and survivors under the debris.
The building was partially used as a gathering point for security forces and on occasion by the Houthis as an assembly point for forces headed for deployment elsewhere in Yemen.
The air strike happened shortly before midnight on Sunday, according to the officials.
The Saudi-led coalition began air strikes against the Houthis and their allies in March 2015, in alliance with the government of Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Journalist killed
Meanwhile, the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a Nairobi-based humanitarian news agency, announced the death of one of its contributors in Yemen.
In a statement it said Almigdad Mohammed Ali Mojalli, 35, was killed on Sunday just outside Sanaa in an “apparent” air strike.
Mojalli also contributed from Yemen to Western media outlets, including Voice of America and Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, said the statement.
Since last March, more than 5,800 people have been killed in Yemen.
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