Houthis Report Seven Killed in Taiz Market Strike as Yemen Government Claims Iranian Experts Killed

Seven people were killed and 40 wounded in what Houthi-affiliated media described as a Saudi airstrike on a market in central Taiz, Yemen, amid escalating fighting between the group and government forces.

The casualty figures and attribution of the strike to Saudi Arabia came from media linked to Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. No independent confirmation was available in the information provided.

Yemen’s internationally recognized government separately announced that Iranian experts had been killed. The available account did not specify how many, identify them or say where their deaths occurred.

It was not clear whether the government’s announcement concerned the reported market strike or a separate incident.

The competing accounts emerged as fighting intensified between Houthi and government forces, with the reported strike placing a market in central Taiz at the heart of the latest casualty claims.