(CNN) – Yemen's Houthi-run health ministry claims 16 people were killed by airstrikes in Sanaa, the nation’s capital, on Friday.
The ministry said seven children are among the dead. The airstrikes hit two residential buildings.
The deadly strikes follow two days after at least 51 people were killed on Wednesday in an airstrike that hit a hotel on the outskirts of Yemen's capital Sanaa, according to Yemen health ministry officials.
Ali Al-Asimi, a senior security official in Sanaa, blamed a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia for the attack on the Arhab district. Most of the dead in the hotel were merchants, Al-Asimi said.
The Saudi-led coalition of Arab states launched its bombing campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who toppled the internationally recognized leadership in Yemen, in 2015.
The Wednesday strike was one of at least two dozen across the country, according to the Health Ministry. At least 26 people were reported injured.
Two-and-a-half years into its grinding civil war, Yemen is facing a near famine and one of the worst outbreaks of cholera in decades.
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen had reached 500,000, making it the largest cholera epidemic in the world.
Nearly 2,000 people have died since the cholera outbreak began to spread at the end of April, the WHO added.
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