Monday, 20 April 2015

Powerful explosions from Saudi -led airstrikes rock Yemeni capital.

      Saudi-led airstrikes on weapons caches in Sana'a, the Yemen's capital on Monday caused massive explosions that shattered windows, sent resdents scrambling for shelters and killed a local TV presenter. Witness reported mushroom clouds rising over the mountainous outskirts of Sana'a, where the largest weapon stores are located. A Yemeni official told the AP news agency that fighter jets were demolishing parts of the mountain, in an attempt to uncoverand destroy scud missiles, dw reported. Aljazeera news network reported that 46 people have been killed, 300 people were wounded when Saudi-led airstrikes reportedly struck a scud missile basein Faj Attan, a district in Yemen. The editor-in chief of the Yemen Post told Aljazeera news network that the air attack was the strongest explosion ever witness in Sana'a. Witness compared the blast, which sent a plume of smoke hundreds of metres into the sky, to earthquake.

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