At least four people were killed on Sunday when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a fuel station in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah, a medic and residents said.

Five others were wounded in the air attack which struck the station at the entrance of a popular market of Mastaba district earlier the morning.

Saudi Arabia is leading an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after the Houthi rebels forced him into exile and seized much of the country's north, including the capital Sanaa.

The four-year-long war has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, displaced 3 million others and pushed the country to the brink of famine.

United Nations special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths left Sanaa on Saturday after a visit, during which the rebels pledged to attend the upcoming peace talks in Sweden.

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