ADEN, Yemen, May 23 (Xinhua) -- At least six citizens were killed and three others wounded by a Saudi-led air raid in the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah, Houthi's official TV channel reported.
The Houthi-affiliated AlMasirah TV channel said the coalition targeted a mango farm in the Directorate of Beit al-Faqih in Hodeidah.
Unknown number of citizens went missing after the aerial bombardment of the Saudi-led coalition destroyed their farm, according to the Houthi TV network.
Earlier in the day, warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition managed to abort a Houthi attack aimed at one of the commercial oil tankers in the Red Sea, the UAE's official news agency WAM reported.
According to WAM, the UAE forces involved in the anti-Houthi Arab coalition "destroyed two Houthi boats in international waters, who were threatening one of the commercial oil tankers in the Red Sea, while two other boats managed to escape."
However, local media outlets linked to the Houthi group said that aerial bombardment by the Saudi-led coalition resulted in injuring a number of fishermen in Kamaran Island, the largest Yemeni island in the Red Sea.
Meanwhile, armed confrontations continued on Wednesday between the Yemeni troops and Houthis in the Red Sea coast areas near Hodeidah.
Military observers said that the Houthis are facing a mounting pressure and failed to prevent the government forces from advancing in the Red Sea coast areas.
The Houthi rebels are losing their grip on the western provinces and their territory is shrinking daily.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked in a civil war since the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels overran much of the country militarily and seized all northern provinces, including capital Sanaa, in 2014.
Saudi Arabia leads an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after Iran-backed Houthi rebels forced him into exile.
The United Nations has listed Yemen as the world's number one humanitarian crisis, with 7 million Yemenis on the brink of famine and cholera causing more than 2,000 deaths.
