Saudi-led planes bomb Sanaa airport to stop Iranian plane landing


  • World
  • Wednesday, 29 Apr 2015

Members of the Popular Resistance Committee secure a street during clashes with Houthi fighters in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz April 28, 2015. At least 15 people were killed in heavy fighting between Houthi fighters and tribesmen in the oil-producing Marib province in central Yemen, tribal and medical sources said on Tuesday, as Saudi-led air strikes against the Iran-allied militia continued. REUTERS/Stringer

CAIRO/ADEN (Reuters) - Jets from a Saudi-led alliance destroyed the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport on Tuesday to prevent an Iranian plane from landing there, Saudi Arabia said, as fighting across the country killed at least 30 people.

Yemeni Vice President Khaled Bahah had called on the Houthis on Monday to heed a U.N. Security Council demand for an end to fighting, which the Red Cross says has pushed Yemen into a humanitarian catastrophe.

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