Warplanes struck Yemeni military bases Thursday as anti-aircraft fire echoed over Sana, the capital, a day after Saudi Arabia and other nations in the region launched attacks on Shiite Muslim rebels who have seized the city and sent Yemen's president fleeing.
Medical officials in Sana said at least 28 people, including children, were killed and 55 injured, many in critical condition. The Education Ministry ordered schools closed in the capital, and a large number of families reportedly had fled their homes.
Armed clashes continue in the southern governorate of Aden between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, a U.S. ally in the fight against Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, who reportedly fled the city of Aden by boat on Wednesday.
Local sources in Saadah province, a Houthi stronghold, reported that the area was under attack by aircraft from Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies.
The intervention has threatened to expand what has been an internal battle into a regional war, with Shiite-led Iran backing the rebels and the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council and their supporters seeking to bolster Hadi's claim to power.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the airstrikes to "defend the legitimate government" of Yemen and prevent the takeover of Yemen by the Houthi militia groups, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel Al-Jubeir told reporters at the Saudi Embassy in Washington on Wednesday.
Iran, joined by Russia and China, condemned the intervention on Thursday, with a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry in Tehran saying that resorting "to military measures against Yemen will ... spread the crisis in the region."
Alaeddin Brojerdi, chairman of the national security and foreign policy panel in Iran's parliament, blamed the United States for the attacks.
"America is leading the waging of war in the region and without doubt, Saudi Arabia could not attack without the authorization of some Gulf Cooperation Council member countries and has no authority to attack," he said.
Bernadette Meehan, National Security Council spokeswoman, said Wednesday that President Obama had authorized providing "logistical and intelligence support to GCC-led military operations."
"While U.S. forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a joint planning cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate U.S. military and intelligence support," she said.
The Gulf Cooperation Council members are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In Yemen, meanwhile, people rushed to grocery shops Thursday to stock up on food.
"You don't know what will happen," said one shopper at a large supermarket. "I have to buy things for my family in case things got worse in the country. You cannot trust anything now and things are developing very quickly and the coming days are vague."
Nuha Mohammed, a university graduate student, said the airstrikes would feed sympathy for the northern Houthi rebels.
"Even if these attacks and war is over, Abdu Rabu Mansour will never be able to be president of Yemen, at least the northern parts," she said. "The nature of Yemenis is that they hate whoever attack their people."
Special correspondents Al-Alayaa reported from Sana and Mostaghim from Tehran. Times staff writer Brian Bennett in Washington contributed to this report.
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