SANAA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a fresh Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a popular market in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday evening increased to 19, a local medic told Xinhua.
The airstrike hit a vegetable market in Bait al-Masoudi area in Bait al-Fakih district, south of the port city, Karim Daghush, doctor of Bait al-Fakih hospital said.
The doctor told Xinhua by phone that the death toll increased from 15 to 19 and 10 others were critically wounded.
"Some injured are more likely to die from dangerous bleeding and injures," Daghush said, adding that the small hospital in the district lacks equipment to save the lives of these injured.
Earlier the day, three people including a child were killed when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a gathering of internally displaced families in Hodeidah, according to a hospital official there.
Last week, a coalition airstrike killed 17 passengers fleeing escalating war in Hodeidah, and injured 20 others, according to a local hospital official.
Saudi Arabia is leading an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after the Houthi rebels forced him into exile.
The Yemeni civil war has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced nearly three million others.
