People inspect a site hit by airstrikes last midnight in Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 20, 2019. Four powerful Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa at midnight on Saturday, residents said. According to Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television, the coalition airstrikes targeted Houthi military positions in the south and northwest of Sanaa. (Xinhua/Mohammed Mohammed)
SANAA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Four powerful Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa at midnight on Saturday, residents said.
The successive strikes shook the ground of the entire city, where children's cry could be heard in explosions.
According to Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television, the coalition airstrikes targeted Houthi military positions in the south and northwest of Sanaa.
There was neither comment yet from Houthis on the coalition's air attacks nor reports on the casualties.
Hours earlier, the Houthi al-Masirah TV said it will release a video showing a captured "sick Saudi soldier prisoner" demanding the Saudi government's help to release him.
The Saturday's airstrikes were the second coalition's attack on Sanaa in a month after airstrikes on Dec. 19 last year that targeted the rebel-held military air base north of the capital.
Saudi Arabia has been leading an Arab military coalition in Yemen against the Houthi militia since March 2015, in order to reinstate the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
