Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Monday that a US strike on a migrant detention center in Saada, their stronghold in the north of the country, had killed 68 people, according to a new death toll.
"The civil defense announced that 68 African migrants were killed and 47 wounded in a US attack that targeted a center housing illegal migrants in the city of Saada," the rebel Al Masira television channel reported.
The rebels' official Saba news agency reported the US strikes on "one of the detention centers for African migrants in the Sada detention center."
The center housed 115 migrants, according to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Huthi administration.
Television broadcast footage showing bodies trapped under the rubble and rescue teams trying to help the victims.
The US has been attacking Yemeni rebels almost daily since March 15 in an effort to neutralize the rebels' threats in the Red Sea, a maritime zone that is crucial to global trade.
The US military said on Sunday that it had struck more than 800 targets in Yemen since mid-March and added that it had killed several hundred rebel fighters, including members of the group's leadership.
Since the start of the Gaza war, which was triggered by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the Houthis have carried out dozens of rocket attacks on Israel and ships connecting with Israel, claiming they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians.
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