Saudi-led coalition helicopter attack kills 25 civilians in Yemen
Air strikes by helicopters from a Saudi-led alliance killed 25 civilians in a Yemeni village on Sunday, residents and medics said, adding that most of the victims were women and children.
"People were fleeing their homes as the helicopters pursued, They committed a massacre for no reason," one resident, who called himself Khaled, told Reuters by phone.
The incident in the village of Bani Zela, in Yemen's Red Sea border area with Saudi Arabia, comes a day after the kingdom announced that three of its officers, including a general, had been killed along the frontier.
An Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been pounding the Iran-allied Houthi militia in Yemen from the air for six months, trying to eject the group from the capital Sanaa and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
