ADEN, Yemen, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition launched Monday a series of airstrikes and targeted several Houthi-controlled areas across Yemen, with no immediate reports of casualties.
According to the Houthi-run Saba News Agency the Saudi-led fighter jets struck the Sanhan and Bani Bahlul districts in the country's capital of Sanaa with with more than five airstrikes.
The agency quoted a local official as saying that the airstrikes struck residential areas and caused heavy damage to citizens' houses, cars and other private and public properties.
Elsewhere in Yemen's northwestern province of Amran, Saudi-led airstrikes targeted a government compound and Houthi-held positions with intensified air raids.
In the country's western port city of Hodyada, the pro-Houthi naval forces targeted on Monday a Saudi war boat off the city's coast, according to reports by local Houthi media outlets.
The reports claimed that the shelling hit the war boat accurately, without giving further details about casualties.
On Sunday night, officials of the Houthi authorities in Sanaa told Xinhua that more than 42 air raids were carried out by the Saudi-led fighter jets and targeted different northern provinces in the war-torn Arab country.
Huge explosions heard in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on Sunday night as a result of the Saudi-led airstrikes and warplanes continued hovering for hours and opened sound barriers, causing panic among residents.
Yemen's internationally-backed government, allied with a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, has for years been battling Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels for control of the country.
