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An explosion near the entrance to the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Saturday killed at least eight people and injured at least 11 others, officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion or whether the incident was an attack.
The explosion comes almost three weeks after six people were killed in a car-bomb attack that targeted Aden’s governor, who survived.
AFP footage on Saturday showed people pulling out a body from a vehicle that had been completely destroyed, as firefighters put out flames nearby.
The internationally recognised government relocated to Aden from the capital Sanaa in 2014, forced out by the Huthis, who are fighting Saudi-backed Yemeni government loyalists.
A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for Saturday’s blast, which is the deadliest in the area since December last year, when an attack targeting cabinet members ripped through Aden’s airport.
At least 26 people, including three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, were killed and scores were wounded when explosions rocked the airport as ministers disembarked from an aircraft.
All cabinet members were reported to be unharmed, in what some ministers charged was a Huthi attack.
Children killed in Taez
Also on Saturday, three children were killed and three more were critically wounded in a neighbourhood of Yemen’s third city Taez, by what state media said was rebel mortar fire.
“The Iranian-backed Huthi militia targeted the Al-Kamp neighbourhood with… shells, which led to the death of three children,” the Saba new agency said.
One of the wounded children has had his legs amputated and all three “are in a critical condition”, it added.
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Source : france24
