AFP, SANAA: Powerful explosions shook the Yemeni capital yesterday, witnesses said, after the Saudi-led coalition vowed to press its air war following a rebel missile strike that killed dozens of Gulf soldiers. The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The raids hit military bases on the Nahdain and Fajj Attan hills and the neighbouring presidential comp­lex, south of Sanaa, as well as the headquarters of the special forces. Also targeted were Huthi positions in the northern neighbourhoods of Sufan and Al-Nahda, forcing scores of residents to flee to other areas for safety, the witnesses said.