TAIZ, Yemen — An airstrike late on Friday night killed four people from the same family, including women and children, in the town of Hiba near the city of Taiz, the Houthi-run health authorities in Yemen said on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

Source: Associated Press, Oct 24, 2026

Health ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi said in a statement that the strike also wounded five others, including some who were seriously hurt, AP reported. A separate strike early on Saturday hit a shelter for African migrants in the northern city of Saada, injuring seven people, he said.

Source: Associated Press, Oct 24, 2026

Yemen's Saba news agency, reporting the health ministry statement, said the Taiz strike hit a family home in the Habbah area of Al-Masrakh district and gave an initial toll of three people killed — two children and a woman — and six family members injured. The differing figures are the authorities' initial accounts, reported as such; they have not been independently verified.

Source: Saba via Al-Thawra Net, Oct 24, 2026

Al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for both strikes, AP reported. Saudi Arabia did not respond to a request for comment. The allegation has not been independently confirmed.

Source: Associated Press, Oct 24, 2026

The Saudi-led coalition fighting against the Houthis said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis early on Saturday toward the Saudi capital, Riyadh, AP reported. It also said it destroyed a drone over the kingdom's eastern region.

Source: Associated Press, Oct 24, 2026

Taiz is a hotbed of violence in Yemen's revived civil war, and the reported strikes come amid a major escalation of fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, AP said. No minor victims are named in this report.

Source: Associated Press, Oct 24, 2026