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		</div><p>The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels has attacked a detention centre in the south-western province of Dhamar with several air strikes, killing at least 60 people, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said.</p>
<p>The attack was the deadliest so far this year by the coalition, which has faced international criticism for air strikes that have killed civilians and hit non-military targets.</p>
<p>The coalition denied it had struck a lockup, saying it had targeted a military site.</p>
<p>Dhamar is located around 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of the capital Sanaa.</p>
<p><em>“We were sleeping and around midnight, there were maybe three, or four, or six strikes. They were targeting the jail, I really don’t know the strike numbers,”</em> wounded detainee Nazem Saleh said while on a stretcher in a local hospital.</p>
<p>He said the ICRC had visited the centre two times before the air strike.</p>
<p>Youssef al-Hadhri, a spokesman for the Houthi-run Health Ministry, said at least seven air strikes hit three buildings in the complex overnight.</p>
<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross, which inspects detention centres as part of its global mission, said it had visited the site in the past.</p>
<p>Former detainees, meanwhile, said the Houthis had also used the site in the past to store and repair weapons.</p>
<p>The Saudi-led coalition said it had hit a military facility used by the rebels to restore drones and missiles.</p>
<p>The strikes came as the Saudi-led coalition’s partners – chiefly the United Arab Emirates and an array of Yemeni militias – are increasingly at odds over the war’s aims.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia intervened on behalf of the internationally recognised government in March 2015, after the Iran-backed Houthis took the capital city.</p>
<p>The strikes came as the Saudi-led coalition’s partners – chiefly the United Arab Emirates and an array of Yemeni militias – are increasingly at odds over the war’s aims.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia intervened on behalf of the internationally recognised government in March 2015, after the Iran-backed Houthis took the capital city.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Sweden’s foreign minister was holding talks in Jordan, part of her efforts to relaunch negotiations after years of stalemate between the warring sides.</p>
<p>The conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives, thrust millions to the brink of famine and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.</p>
<p>The rebels’ Health Ministry said in a statement at least 60 people were killed in Sunday’s air strikes. Another 50 were wounded.</p>
<p>The Saudi-led coalition said it had hit a Houthi military facility used as storage for drones and missiles in Dhamar, “in accordance with international humanitarian law”.</p>
<p>It said “all precautionary measures were taken to protect civilians”.</p>
<p>Colonel Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the coalition, was quoted by the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV as denying the target was a prison.</p>
<p>Mohammed Abdul-Salam, spokesman for the Houthis, posted on his telegram account graphic photos that showed bodies and severed limbs under the rubble.</p>
<p>Abdul-Qader el-Murtaza, a rebel official, said dozens of captured government fighters were being held at the site.</p>
<p><em>“The targeted prison housed over 170 prisoners of war, most of whom were supposed to be part of a local exchange deal,”</em> he was quoted as saying by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.</p>
<p>The Red Cross said it sent urgent medical supplies and 200 body bags to Dhamar.</p>
<p>Franz Rauchenstein, head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen, said he was heading to Dhamar.</p>
<p><em>“We have visited detainees in this location before,”</em> he said, confirming the site’s use as a lockup.</p>
<p>Local residents said family members arrested for being critical of the Houthis were imprisoned in the detention centre.</p>
<p>They said at least seven air strikes hit the area.</p>
<p>Omat al-Salam al-Haj, a mother of a detainee, said the centre housed anti-Houthi political detainees who were rounded up over suspicions of co-operating with the coalition.</p>
<p>Former detainee Mansour al-Zelai said the Houthis were restoring weapons in and close to the detention centre.</p>
<p>This is not the first air strike to hit a Houthi-run detention centre.</p>
<p>In October 2016, an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a prison complex in the Red Sea port of Hodeida, killing at least 58 people, most of whom were prisoners serving jail terms for minor crimes or who were in pre-trial detention.</p>
<p>At the time, the coalition said the prison complex was used as a command centre for Houthis.</p>
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