SAUDI ARABIA said it had launched an investigation yesterday after its military coalition in Yemen bombed a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic for the second time in just over a month.

MSF said air raids by the Saudi-led coalition hit its clinic in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen on Wednesday, wounding nine people.

The group said the bombing continued despite urgent calls to the coalition.

In a statement yesterday, the coalition said it began the investigation to “verify whether the news is true.” It said it would “publish the findings with the utmost transparency and frankness.”

But it brazenly claimed that MSF was at fault for siting its clinic close to the fighting between Houthi rebels and allied army units, and Saudi-backed forces loyal to ousted president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

It said that aid groups should have prior co-ordination with the military and “remain away from the places where the Houthi militias are present.”