Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister of the Houthis-controlled Yemen government, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the capital of Sanaa, a spokesman for the militant group said Saturday.
The prime minister and his colleagues were at a government workshop on Thursday. A number of them were also killed or wounded, the spokesman said.
"We announce the martyrdom of Prime Minister Mujahid Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi ... along with a number of his fellow ministers," the presidency said in a statement carried on Houthi-run television.
The airstrikes were reported Friday by The Jerusalem Post in an attempt to assassinate senior Houthi leaders, including the prime minister, but no casualties were confirmed. Defense Minister Israel Katz called it a "strike on the firstborn."
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