Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of strike in Yemen

Cairo: Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of striking a prison on Monday in the country's north as tensions escalate between the Iran-backed group and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces. The strike on the Central Corrective Facility in the strategic city of Hazm in Jawf province killed a child and left 35 prisoners and a woman who was visiting her husband trapped under the rubble, the prison's warden told the Houthi al-Masirah news channel. Two people were also wounded. Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014 when the Houthis descended from their northern stronghold and seized the capital, Sanaa, forcing the internationally recognised government to flee southward, then into exile in Saudi Arabia.