1st LD: Fresh Saudi-led airstrike hits military base in Yemen's capital

The Saudi-led Arab forces conducted fresh air strikes targeting the largest military base in Yemen's capital Sanaa Friday evening as the coalition's aerial campaign against the shiite Houthi group entered the third day, witnesses said.

Warplanes raided the largest military base on the mountain of Nokum in eastern Sanaa and also several other targets in that area, witnesses said.

The Saudi-led Arab forces carried out a third day of airstrikes which are repelled by intensified anti-aircraft gunfire of the Shiite Houthi group that controls Sanaa. Huge explosions could be heard across the city while the Houthi artillery lighted up the sky.

There is no immediate report of casualties yet.

During the seven-hour airstrikes overnight Thursday, the coalition forces hit targets in Sanaa, the southern province of Taiz and the Houthi stronghold of Saada province that borders Saudi Arabia in the north.

A Houthi member told Xinhua that the strikes in Saada killed seven people and injured 14 others, which brings the death toll in Yemen to 32 while at leat 64 were injured since the airstrikes commenced late Wednesday night.

The source declined to expose the casualties in Sanaa where three military camps were targeted last night. Enditem