Report says airstrikes kill 6 Pakistani sailors off Yemen's Red Sea coast

At least six Pakistani sailors were killed when Saudi-led coalition warplanes targeted their boat off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Yemen's Houthi-controlled Saba news agency reported on Monday.

The airstrikes hit the boat off Mokha coast of Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz on Sunday, the report said.

According to the report, the boat was carrying 12 Pakistani sailors, six were killed and the rest were still missing.

The report did not provided further details.

Saudi Arabia, which led a mostly Arab countries' military coalition, intervened in the Yemeni conflict in March 2015 in an attempt to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, whom Houthi rebels drove into exile to the Saudi capital of Riyadh in 2014.

The Houthis, backed by forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, hold most of Yemen's northern regions, including the capital Sanaa, while government forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition control the rest of the country, including seven southern provinces.

The airstrikes and fighting on the ground have failed to restore Hadi or defeat the Houthis, but killed over 10,000 Yemenis and displaced more than 3 million others. Endit