At least sex children and three women from the same family have been killed and three other injured in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on their home in the far north of Yemen, a local health source said on Friday.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has strongly condemned the attack that took place at dawn in Mahda district on the south-western outskirts of Sa’ada city.    

"This crime is added to the series of crimes against civilians in Yemen," said the Noble laureate on her official Facebook page.

Karman has urged to abide by humanitarian law and to spare the civilians horrors of war and conflict.