SANAA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthis said Tuesday that a Saudi airstrike killed nine detainees at a prison under their control in the northern province of Al-Jawf.
The strike took place Monday night, and the detainees had been captured in recent fighting, said the group.
Abdul Qader al-Murtada, head of the Houthis' prisoner affairs committee, said on X that the "criminal Saudi regime" had targeted a prison in Al-Hazm, the provincial capital.
The names of those killed would be released later, Al-Murtada said.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.
Earlier Tuesday, Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported that Saudi warplanes had carried out three airstrikes on a house in the Red Sea port city of Mocha in southwestern Taiz province, killing six people, including two children and a woman, and wounding eight others.
The strikes came amid an escalating confrontation between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, with Saudi airstrikes targeting Houthi-held areas across Yemen and the group launching missiles and drones at targets deep into the kingdom.
Yemen's conflict erupted in late 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene in 2015 to support the internationally recognized Yemeni government. ■
