THE latest US air attacks on the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed 12 people and wounded 30, the Houthi-led government said today.

This followed the news that US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had shared a second Signal chat in which he gave details of an earlier strike on Yemen.

The Houthis said the latest strike had hit the Farwa neighbourhood market in Sanaa’s Shuub district.

Footage screened on the al-Masirah satellite television channel showed damage to vehicles and buildings in the area, with screaming onlookers holding what appeared to be a dead child. 

Strikes overnight into today also hit other areas of the country, including the Amran, Hodeida, Marib and Saada governorates.

Last week, US air attacks on the Ras Isa fuel port killed at least 74 people.

The US is targeting the Houthis in response to their attacks on Israeli and US shipping in the Red Sea. 

They describe the military action as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians under attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother in which he shared similar details of a March military air strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders.

The newspaper reported that the second chat on Signal — which is not authorised for the communication of sensitive or classified national defence information — included 13 people, the source said.

The group included Mr Hegseth’s wife Jennifer, who is a former Fox News producer, and his brother Phil Hegseth, who was hired at the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser. 

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the report as a “non-story” and said: “No matter how many times the legacy media tries to resurrect the same non-story, they can’t change the fact that no classified information was shared.” 

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer accused Mr Hegseth of putting “lives at risk,” adding: “But Trump is still too weak to fire him.”

The first chat included a number of cabinet members and came to light because Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been added to the group.

Mr Hegseth’s use of Signal and the sharing of such plans are under investigation by the Defence Department’s acting inspector-general.

The National Security Council and a Pentagon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the second chat.