Houthi fighters ride on the back of a truck as they attend a pro-Houthi tribal gathering in Sanaa, Yemen June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - A Saudi-led military coalition said it intercepted a missile fired in Yemen on Tuesday and residents said an air strike by the alliance caused eight civilian casualties, straining a civil war ceasefire.
The ballistic missile was fired toward the central city of Marib, which is controlled by Saudi-backed government forces, but was intercepted and destroyed along with the source of the launch, the coalition said in a statement without elaborating.
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