Houthis, aid group: Death toll from prison airstrike hits 82

By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels and an aid group say the death toll from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a prison run by the rebels has climbed to at least 82 detainees. They said Saturday that rescuers were still searching for survivors and bodies in the rubble of the prison site near the border with Saudi Arabia. The airstrike Friday was part of an intense air and ground offensive that marked an escalation in Yemen’s yearslong civil war. Yemen’s conflict began in 2014, when the Houthis took the capital, Sanaa, forcing the government to flee to the south then to exile in Saudi Arabia.