YEMEN-SECURITY/SANAA UPDATE Sanaa residents survey air strike damage

Record ID: 147166

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/SANAA UPDATE Sanaa residents survey air strike damage
  • Date: 14th July 2015
  • Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) PEOPLE GATHERED AT SCENE OF AIR STRIKE MEN STANDING NEXT TO DAMAGED HOUTHI TRUCK VARIOUS OF DAMAGED HOUTHI TRUCK VARIOUS OF DAMAGED TRUCK AND DEBRIS IN THE STREET MEN GATHERED AROUND DAMAGED CAR (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HOUTHI FIGHTER, SAID SALEH, SAYING: "At 11:22 exactly, the first missile hit and we heard the sound of the explosion. Im
  • Embargoed: 29th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
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  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Saudi-led coalition forces pounded targets in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday (July 14), including a sports complex used by the Iran-backed Houthis to store military vehicles, killing at least 10 people, residents and witnesses said.
    The air strike hit at around 11am (0800gmt) Tuesday morning, damaging nearby residential and commercial buildings, witnesses said.
    "At 11:22 exactly, the first missile hit and we heard the sound of the explosion. Immediately after that the second missile hit," Houthi fighter Said Saleh told Reuters at the scene.
    "There was a long line of cars parked outside the gas station to fuel up and many were burned and more than ten people were killed," he added, referring to a long line of cars that were waiting to fill gas at a nearby gas station.
    Meanwhile in the south, Gulf-backed Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport from Houthi militia fighters as heavy combat took place across the port city following the collapse of a humanitarian truce, the exiled government said.
    Forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi also took Aden's central district of Khormaksar, and aid sources reported fighting around the port area.
    Backed by air support from a Saudi-led coalition, the loyalist forces launched a wide-ranging assault in Aden this week to reclaim territory held by the Iranian-allied Houthis.
    A coalition of Arab states has been bombarding Houthi forces, Yemen's dominant power, since late March in a bid to reinstate Hadi.
    He was ousted from power when the Houthis took over the capital Sanaa in September, then fled to Riyadh as Houthi forces closed in on Aden, where he had sought refuge.
    A U.N.-brokered ceasefire to allow delivery of aid to a city desperately short of food, medicine and other necessities collapsed on Monday (July 13) after Saudi Arabia said it did not recognize the truce and continued air strikes.
    On the humanitarian front, the U.N.'s World Health Organization managed to deliver medical supplies to Aden but it said food rations have been delayed.
    The U.N. World Food Programme said a 40-truck convoy carrying enough food to feed 117,000 people for a month had reached Aden province after being held at a checkpoint for days.
    But hopes of shipping 500,000 litres of fuel to Aden were still stymied by security problems.
    More than 3,000 people have been killed and more than one million displaced since the conflict broke out.
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