Saudi-led airstrike kills 20 in Yemen

At least 20 people were killed and several others injured when an airstrike of the Saudi-led coalition forces targeted a military camp in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Sunday morning, a government official said.

"The Saudi-led airstrike bombed the headquarters of the 22nd Armoured Brigade controlled by Shia Houthi gunmen in Janad area of Taiz, killing at least 20 people and injuring a number of others, including civilians," the official of Taiz's local government told Xinhua news agency.

The airstrike caused heavy material damages inside the military camp and partially destroyed some nearby houses in the area, the government source said.

Ahmed Walyd, a resident in Janad area of Taiz, where the Saudi-led airstrike took place, told Xinhua that "a number of missiles also struck a small village and a poultry farm next to the military camp".

In the southern port city of Aden, intense fighting between pro-Houthi forces and tribal militia linked to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi continued in several areas across the province despite the Saudi-led air raids on Houthi-held sites.

Witnesses told Xinhua that warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition forces pounded on Sunday some Houthi-controlled sites in and around Hadi's Presidential Palace in Aden's neighbourhood of Cirater, with no immediate reports of casualties.

The Shia Houthi group backed by armoured army units took control over Hadi's Presidential Palace after fierce fighting that left hundreds of people either dead or injured from both sides.

Thousands of families evacuated from Aden as a result of the ongoing armed clashes in several neighbourhoods of the city with intensified air and naval bombings by the Saudi-led coalition forces.

A number of Yemeni government officials in Aden warn of an environmental catastrophe as bodies are scattered across the main streets for days, without any garbage collection.

The security situation in Yemen has sharply deteriorated since early March when conflicts erupted in several provinces in the country's southern regions.

A coalition led by Saudi Arabia started from March 26 airstrikes on Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa and other cities, saying the multinational action is to protect President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's legitimacy and force the Houthis to retreat from cities they have seized since September 2014.