Yemen air strike kills 9 family members

SANAA: A Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen killed nine members of the same family, including several children, on Sunday in the southwestern rebel-held city of Ibb, witnesses and medics said.

Eleven neighbours were also wounded when the family´s house, on the southern edge of the mountain city, was hit during a night of intense air strikes, witnesses said.

Medics at the city´s main hospital confirmed they had received nine bodies, including those of women and children.

The house was next to a vocational college that Iran-backed Huthi rebels have converted into a military base and arms depot, witnesses said.

Huthi rebels and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh control Ibb and swathes of Yemeni territory including the capital Sanaa, which they seized in September 2014.