Nearly 70 people killed in 24 hours of intense Yemen fighting

Clashes in Yemen killed at least 66 people in 24 hours, medics and security sources said on Sunday, as Saudi backed militants pushed to oust Yemenis from a key stretch of coastline.

Clashes in Yemen killed at least 66 people in 24 hours, medics and security sources said on Sunday, as Saudi backed militants pushed to oust Yemenis from a key stretch of coastline.

Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition and fighting near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait killed at least 52 Yemenis, the sources said. Wounded Yemenis were taken to a military hospital in Hudaida, a major western port city, a medical source told AFP.

The hospital received 14 martyrs on Saturday and 38 on Sunday, as well as 55 wounded Yemenis, the source said.