Saudi-led coalition air strike kills 36 Yemeni civilians - residents


People gather at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa August 30, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

SANAA (Reuters) - An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition, which said it targeted a bomb-making factory, killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday, residents said.

In another air raid on the capital Sanaa, residents said four civilians were killed when a bomb hit their house near a military base in the south of the city.

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