DUBAI: More than 38 security supervisors for the Houthi militias were killed on Friday night by an Arab coalition jet that targeted the Interior Ministry building, Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya reported.
Saudi Arabia's official Al-Ekhbariya television said two high-ranking insurgents were among more than 50 Houthi militants killed in Sanaa on Friday evening.
The raid happened during a meeting organizing the burial of the so-called Supreme Political Council, according to Al Arabiya sources. The deputy interior minister of the militia government, Abdelhakim al-Khiowani, who is known as Abu al-Karrar, is believed to be among the targets.
The Houthis confirmed an air strike on Sanaa but gave no details.
Witnesses said the militias launched raids arresting soldiers, officers and citizens in the neighborhoods adjacent to the ministry building.
The residents confirmed that several raids targeted the building of the Interior and the Najda camp and the base of Dailmi air north of Sanaa. Other raids targeted the presidential palace, the vicinity of Jabal al-Nahdeen and its militia camps, south of the capital, and in other scattered locations.
