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The attack
follows renewed air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on
the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Thirteen civilians
were killed when bombs a snack food factory.
The Houthis did not immediately claim responsibility for the
missile attack. In the past, they have boasted of launching
around a dozen Scud missiles at the south of the kingdom during
more than a year of war.
A senior Houthi official did say that he held the United Nations
responsible for the stepped-up combat, which followed the
collapse over the weekend of U.N.-backed peace talks.
"The silence of the U.N. towards this dangerous escalation and
mass extermination against the Yemeni people ... makes it a
partner in the aggression," Saleh al-Samad, the chief of a new
Houthi-backed political council, told state news agency Saba.
Saudi Arabia and an alliance of mostly Gulf Arab allies have
launched thousands of air strikes against the Houthis and their
allies in Yemen's army since they intervened in Yemen's civil
war on behalf of the exiled government.
The Saudis are backing an offensive by pro-government fighters
aiming to advance on Sanaa from the north and east.
(Writing By Noah Browning, editing by Larry King)
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