Saudi-led coalition strikes in Yemen kill at least 10, Houthi media report

At least 10 people were killed Monday in attacks by the Saudi-led coalition on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, according to Houthi-affiliated media. A spokesperson for the Houthi-run Health Ministry said a strike on a salt factory in the capital, Sanaa, killed one person and injured eight others. Separate media reports said nine people were killed when a government complex was targeted in the Al-Jawf region, among them five children and a woman.

The reported strikes followed a warning from Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Abdulaziz bin Salman, who said earlier in the day that the kingdom's response to recent Houthi attacks on the airport in Riyadh and on Saudi Aramco energy facilities would be "equally serious." His remarks pointed to a response of comparable scale to the Houthi strikes that preceded them.

The casualty accounts could not be independently confirmed. The details from Sanaa came from a spokesperson for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, while the Al-Jawf deaths were attributed to media reports. Houthi authorities control Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, and their affiliated outlets routinely report on coalition operations.

The violence marks the latest exchange in a long-running conflict between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi movement, which Riyadh has accused of targeting its airport and Aramco facilities. No further details on the timing or scope of additional military action were released by either side.

The Saudi energy minister's comments were the last official statement from Riyadh on the matter, and it was not immediately clear whether the reported strikes were the response he described.