Officials still assessing damage to Yemeni port after attack

Officials at the Yemen Red Sea port of Hodeida are still trying to assess the impact and the damage at the port after jets from a Saudi-led coalition attacked, destroying cranes and warehouses at a main import hub to the north of the country.

According to news reports, the raids destroyed the port's four cranes and also hit warehouses, bringing work to a halt. There was no information on what was in the warehouses.

Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, was cited by Yahoo News as saying that the strikes on Hodeida had been directed not at the civilian port but at a base where the Houthis had deployed anti-ship weapons. "There is a naval base inside the port. This is where we struck," he said.