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An Arab airstrike and Saudi artillery shelling in northern Yemen killed 19 civilians and wounded dozens of others, Yemen's state news agency Saba reported late Wednesday, as residents reported further air raids around the country on Thursday, Reuters reports.

The report by Saba, which is controlled by Yemen's dominant Houthi movement, could not be independently confirmed.

Local sources told the agency that Wednesday's airstrike had killed 13 people. They also said six people had been killed when their car was struck by a tank shell in a neighboring district near the border with Saudi Arabia.

Overnight around 12 air raids hit weapons stores around the presidential palace in the capital Sanaa, according to a Reuters witness, triggering secondary blasts which lit up the night sky.

Residents said Saudi shelling had hit the main border crossing from Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, demolishing the customs department on the Yemeni side of the facility in the far northern province of Haradh.