Riyadh: More than 130 Yemeni rebels have been killed in air strikes in the south of Marib, the flame point of the civil war, the Saudi LED coalition said on Tuesday.
Dozens of strikes were carried out in Abdiya District in the province of Marib.
The city of Marib is the last post of internationally recognized government in North Yemen.
“We are targeting nine military vehicles from Huthi militias in Abdiya, and their losses exceed 134 members,” said the coalition statement carried by official Saudi media.
Hundreds of Huthi rebels supported by Iran have died because they struggled for a strategic vital city on last month.
Huthis warned them “on the edge of the city”, in a video statement released on Tuesday.
Rebel forces “today are on the edge of the city of Marib from several sides after defeating traitors and mercenaries …
from several districts in Marib and freed them completely,” said a spokesman Yahya Saree.
Yemen has been destroyed by a seven-year conflict that complained Shiite rebels against the government supported by a Saudi-led military coalition.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions of people have been displaced since the conflict blazed in 2014, when Huthis won the capital Sanaa.
The latest toll comes only a day after the coalition announces the death of 156 rebels in a similar attack in Abdiya.
The rebels rarely announce victims in their own ranks.
Huthis renewed their campaign to capture Marib last month.
The clashes produced and air strikes have left hundreds of rebels and dead loyalists.
On Sunday, six people died in car bombings targeting a convoy that brought the Governor of Aden, the chair of the government of the government.
He survived the attack.
Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalek Saeed said Aden Blast “escalation” by rebels.
“This is an escalation of violence by Huthi militia …
The radical government in Iran pushes Huthis towards more violence,” said Saeed Maeen Abdulmalek to reporters in Cairo.
At least 134 Yemeni rebels die in the South strike Marib: coalition
