CAIRO (AP) – Workers in war-wrecked Yemen recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a prison facility hit by an airstrike, bringing the death toll to at least 87, an international aid group said yesterday.
Internet access, meanwhile, remained largely down after another airstrike hit a telecommunications centre on Friday at the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, according to advocacy group NetBlocks.
The centre is key to Yemen’s connection to the Internet. Head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Yemen Ahmed Mahat, said rescuers completed their search efforts late Saturday at the site of the prison in Yemen’s northern province of Saada, a stronghold of Houthi rebels on the border of Saudi Arabia.
He said 266 people were wounded in the airstrike during an intense air and ground escalation in the country’s civil war.
Yemen’s conflict began in 2014, when the Iranian-backed Houthis took the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to exile in Saudi Arabia.
