Relentless and seemingly indiscriminate attacks have left Yemenis traumatised and grieving. Ahmed, in his twenties, lost his younger brother in a US strike on Furweh market in Sanaa on 20 April.

“My brother went to the bakery to buy us bread for dinner,” Ahmed told MEE. “The explosion tore him into pieces. Many others were killed and wounded in their homes and shops.”

Mohammed doesn’t know why his neighbourhood was struck by US warplanes on Sunday evening.

He lives in Thuqban, in the Bani Alharith district of the Yemeni capital. It has no connection to the Houthis or any military activity, he said. A barrage of US attacks on Thuqban left at least 12 civilians dead and four others wounded on 27 April.

Mohammed said the strikes wiped out four homes “in the blink of an eye”. One of those homes belonged to Ali Salah, who lived there with his four daughters and two sons.

We rushed to the scene, searching for them in the rubble. We didn’t find their bodies. They were just pieces of flesh. It was a horrendous scene of unspeakable cruelty.”