Houthis Report Deadly Taiz Market Strike as Yemen Government Says Iranian Experts Killed

Seven people were killed and 40 others wounded in what Houthi-affiliated media described as a Saudi airstrike on a market in the centre of Yemen’s Taiz city.

The reported strike came amid escalating fighting between the Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, and government forces.

The casualty figures and attribution of the attack to Saudi Arabia came from media affiliated with the Houthis. No independent confirmation was provided in the available account.

Separately, Yemen’s internationally recognised government announced that Iranian experts had been killed. The information provided did not specify how many, where they died or the circumstances of their deaths.

It was not clear whether the government’s announcement was connected to the reported market strike in Taiz.