ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Airstrikes launched by warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition targeted the naval college headquarters in the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday evening, a military official told Xinhua.
The Saudi-led warplanes struck the main compound of the naval college controlled by Houthis in Hodeidah with a number of airstrikes, causing damages and explosions, the military source said on condition of anonymity.
"All of the Houthi rebels positioned in and around the naval college headquarters were either killed or injured in the aerial bombardment hours ago," the source said.
He added that "more government institutions controlled by Houthis in Hodeidah will be the target in the next hours."
Earlier in the day, the Yemeni government troops backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) succeeded in cutting off the "Kilo16 road," the only supply route linking Houthi-controlled areas in northern provinces with the port city of Hodeidah.
The fresh progress came following a series of airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi-held areas and military bases in Hodeidah, local sources said.
Other sources of the southern pro-government Giants Brigades confirmed to Xinhua that "progress against Houthis won't be stopped and will continue until liberating the whole province of Hodeidah from the Iranian-backed rebels."
In recent days, the Yemeni government seeks to expel the Houthi rebels out of the strategic port city of Hodeidah militarily despite warnings issued by international humanitarian agencies.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a civil war since the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels overran much of the country militarily and seized all northern provinces, including capital Sanaa, in 2014.
Saudi Arabia leads an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after Iran-backed Houthi rebels forced him into exile.
The United Nations has listed Yemen as the world's number one humanitarian crisis, with seven million Yemenis on the brink of famine and cholera causing more than 2,000 deaths.
