Doctors Without Borders said on Sunday they had completed their work at the scene.
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A total of 266 people were injured in the air strikes, but at least 87 were killed.
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NetBlocks, meanwhile, reports that internet connections have not yet been restored in the city. They broke down as coalition airstrikes hit a telecommunications center on Friday.
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It has already been reported that the Hutu rebel government, which controls the prison, has published a video showing the rubble of buildings and the mutilated corpses following the air strike in Saad, northern Yemen.
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Further south, in the port city of Hudeida, at least three children were killed when coalition airstrikes hit a telecommunications center on Friday where children were playing on a nearby football pitch, Save the Children said. In Yemen, internet communications were cut off after these airstrikes.
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Eight humanitarian organizations operating in Yemen said the prison in Saad had been used as a detention center for migrants, who made up a large number of those killed in the attack.
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The coalition’s air strikes came after the Hutans claimed responsibility for a drone and rocket attack on the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, which killed three people on Monday.
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Since the beginning of 2015, the UAE has joined a Saudi-led military coalition that supports the Yemeni government in its fight against Iranian-backed Hutu rebels, who have repeatedly launched cross-border attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia.
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The civil war has been going on in Yemen since 2014, when the Hutus occupied the country’s capital, Sanaa. The civil war has escalated in recent weeks, killing 377,000 by the end of last year. Millions have fled their homes, many are at risk of starvation, and the United Nations calls the situation the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
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