YEMEN’S de facto government accused Saudi Arabia of violating a United Nations-brokered ceasefire just hours after it came into force yesterday.

The truce between the nine-nation coalition and Houthi rebels allied to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh came into force at midnight on Sunday.

A Yemeni army spokesman said warplanes from the invading Saudi-led coalition bombed the capital Sanaa and the central province of Taiz yesterday morning, violating the truce.