At least 27 people have been killed in the Yemeni capital after Saudi-led air strikes targeted a suspected weapons base held by Houthi fighters, medical sources said.

Health officials told Al Jazeera on Monday that hundreds more were wounded when warplanes reportedly struck a Scud missile base in Faj Attan, a district in western Sanaa, destroying scores of nearby houses and vehicles.

The Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV channel said at least 15 people were killed, including a presenter for another TV network.

“This was by far the strongest explosion witnessed in Sanaa so far. Hundreds, if not thousands of homes have been damaged, sending thousands of people to flee the area,” Hakim al-Masmari, the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post, told Al Jazeera.

Masmari said that the weapons depot in Faj Attan was not hit.

“We sent reporters to the scene who confirmed that the strike missed the depot. The impact site was far away from it,” he said.

Residents of Sanaa said the explosions sent large shockwaves through the city.

“The hanging ceiling and chandelier fell because of the explosions,” resident Mohammed Mohsen told the Associated Press.

In a separate development, Riadh Yassine, Yemen’s foreign minister said Gulf countries would launch a large reconstruction project to rebuild the country after the end of the conflict.

Saudi Arabia and allied nations began the air campaign on March 26, hoping to roll back the Houthi who seized Sanaa in September and have overrun large parts of the country.

Riyadh says air strikes will continue until President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has fled the country, is reinstated.

The Houthis, with vital support from army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, emerged as the dominant force in Yemen after they took over the capital Sanaa six months ago and they now control much of the Arabian Peninsula country. Al Jazeera