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Arab airstrikes killed around 20 Houthi fighters outside the southern Yemeni port city of Aden Wednesday, militiamen opposed to the Houthis said, and residents said overnight strikes also killed a family of eight outside the capital, Reuters reports.

A coalition of Arab states have been bombing Houthi forces, the dominant faction in Yemen's civil war, since March as part of a campaign to restore President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi to power shortly after he fled to Saudi Arabia.

The militia sources said the Houthis were killed when the air raid hit their military convoy as it was transporting an artillery piece toward the northwest suburbs of Aden.

The death toll could not be independently verified.

Residents outside the northern city of Sanaa said air raids on Tuesday night killed eight people, all of them women and children, as the planes bombed an army base nearby.