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The Saudi-led coalition carried out several airstrikes in Yemen early on Wednesday, hitting a small hotel near the capital of Sana’a and killing dozens of Houthis and civilians, Yemeni officials and witnesses said.
According to the officials, an estimated number of 60 were killed in the attack, which took place in the strikes on Wednesday morning in the town of Arhab, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Sana’a.
The two-story hotel in the town’s Qaa al-Qaidhi neighbourhood sustained extensive damage and bodies were still being retrieved from under the rubble, witnesses said. They also said another airstrike hit a checkpoint manned by the Houthis, a few kilometres (miles) from the hotel.
The officials and the witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
Footage of the area aired on al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-run satellite news network, showed bodies hanging out of a simple cinderblock building. Bystanders wrapped mangled corpses into blankets to try to carry them away.
The website of Al-Masirah said 41 people were killed in Arhab, describing the victims as civilians and saying the death toll was expected to rise further. It was not possible to reconcile the different number of fatalities reported by the officials and the TV.
There was no immediate comment from the coalition.
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