SCORES of Yemeni civilians have been killed and injured in the western port city of Hodeidah in the latest Saudi bombing atrocity, locals said yesterday.

Yemen’s Sabah agency put the number of deaths in Wednesday’s air raid by the Saudi-led invasion coalition at 25 with 73 injured.

At the city’s al-Thawra hospital, health official Sami Motai said the toll was expected to rise with scores of bodies buried under at least three houses struck by missiles in the Indians Alley neighbourhood.

“The scene was awful. Body parts were mixed up with the remains of the house and blood filled the place,” one resident told the Reuters news agency.

An unnamed representative of Saudi-based ousted president Abbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi claimed the residential area was “probably hit in error.”

Thousands of Yemenis have been killed since March 2015 in Riyadh’s attempt to reimpose Mr Hadi’s rule.