Twelve dead after car explodes near Yemen’s Aden airport
At least 12 dead in Yemen as car explodes at Aden international airport
‘Twelve civilians were killed in an explosion’ a security source said on SaturdayIt was not initially clear whether the explosion was caused by an attackAden is the temporary home of Yemen’s internationally-recognised governmentThe government has been part of a coalition – backed by Saudi Arabia – that has been fighting the Iran-alligned Houthi rebel group for around seven years
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At least 12 civilians were killed Saturday in a suspected terror attack near the airport of Aden, the Yemeni government’s interim capital, a senior security official said.
‘Twelve civilians were killed in an explosion’ in the vicinity of Aden airport and ‘there are also serious injuries’, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding that the cause of the blast was unknown.
It was not immediately clear whether the incident was an attack. One security source said the car exploded at an outer entrance to the airport near an airport hotel.
People look at cars on fire at the site of an explosion outside Aden international airport in Aden, Yemen, October 30, 2021
Security personnel inspect the site of an explosion outside Aden international airport in Aden, Yemen, October 30, 2021
A still grab from a video posted on Twitter purportedly showing the aftermath of the explosion
Aden is the temporary home of Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, which has as part of a coalition backed by Saudi Arabia been fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi group for around seven years.
But tensions have also for years simmered within Aden itself between the government and southern separatist groups.
The government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) are nominal allies under the Saudi-led coalition.
Pictured: Aden International Airport in Yemen, near to where the explosion occurred today
Earlier this month a car bomb in Aden targeting a convoy carrying the city’s governor – an STC member – killed at least six people and wounded others. The governor survived.
Instability in the south complicates United Nations-led peace efforts to end the war in Yemen which has killed tens of thousands of people and left 80 percent of the population needing help.
Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014 when the Houthis captured the capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north, forcing the internationally recognized government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi-led coalition entered the war in March 2015, backed by the United States, to try restore the government to power. Despite a relentless air campaign and ground fighting, the war has fallen largely into a stalemate, and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
On Thursday, a Houthi ballistic missile struck a residential neighborhood in the central province of Marib, killing at least 11 civilians and wounding 16 others.
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