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Yemen's Houthi group renewed attacks on the central city of Marib on Friday, hours after authorities said missile and drone strikes on residential neighborhoods and displacement camps killed two civilians and injured 14 others.
The state-run Saba News Agency reported that the Houthis struck residential areas and camps for displaced people in Marib again on Friday evening, though it did not provide further details. The Houthis had not commented on the renewed attacks as of 1645GMT.
Yemen's internationally recognized government said the casualties from Friday's earlier attacks were still being assessed.
Health Minister Qassem Buhaibeh said the two deaths and 14 injuries in the strikes on residential neighborhoods and displacement camps in Marib represented a preliminary count, suggesting the toll could rise.
Yemen's Defense Ministry said the Houthis had launched missiles and drones toward Marib, and Saba reported that several drones were intercepted over the city before reaching their targets.
The Defense Ministry also said Friday that 17 soldiers and officers had been killed in attacks it attributed to the Houthis. The Houthis, in turn, said they had targeted government military camps in the governorates of Marib and Hadramawt, though they did not address the reported civilian casualties in Marib city.
Marib, the seat of Yemen's internationally recognized government in the north, has long been a front line in the conflict and a refuge for hundreds of thousands of people displaced from other parts of the country.
In a separate incident, Yemen's National Resistance Forces said they destroyed an explosives-laden Houthi boat that was attempting to target an oil tanker in the Red Sea. According to the state-run Al-Yemen TV, naval forces intercepted the vessel as it traveled at unusually high speed toward a restricted area near the Mocha power station before destroying it.
The broadcaster, citing the military media office of the government-aligned National Resistance Forces based in the southwestern coastal city of Mocha, said the force of the explosion and the smoke rising from the boat indicated it had been loaded with explosives.
The National Resistance Forces said all of its military units remained on high alert to confront any threats posed by the Houthis on land or at sea.
Several front lines across Yemen have seen intermittent fighting since early July, leaving dozens of people dead or injured on both sides.
The country has experienced a relative lull in large-scale fighting since April 2022, though sporadic clashes and attacks have continued. Yemen's war, now in its 12th year, began between government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-backed Houthi group, which has controlled the capital, Sanaa, and other parts of the country since September 21, 2014.
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