The Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a government security forces training camp in Yemen's Shabwa province on Monday. The local authority says the attack killed 53 people and injured 200, as fighting in the country intensifies.
Fifty-three people were killed and 200 were injured in Monday's Houthi attack on the camp, according to the local authority. Video verified by Reuters from Shabwa province showed injured people and bloodied bodies scattered across the ground.
Local authority sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Houthis had launched three ballistic missiles at security forces during a training exercise. Shabwa is an energy-rich province in coastal south-central Yemen.
The strike comes as the Houthis and the internationally recognised government, which a Saudi-led coalition backs, have been trading attacks since the group advanced in September towards territory near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a shipping chokepoint at the mouth of the Red Sea. Government forces, meanwhile, began a campaign this month to recapture Houthi-controlled areas and have recovered ground near the strait. The group, for its part, besieges Taiz, the last major urban stronghold of anti-Houthi forces in the southern highland area.
The conflict has also become another front line in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran, as the Houthis have escalated attacks on Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude exporter. They have targeted Riyadh's international airport and the state oil company Saudi Aramco.
War broke out in Yemen in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and drove the government south. A 2022 truce held until this year. Yemen is already one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with aid agencies warning of rapidly deteriorating conditions.
Source: Investing.com (Reuters)
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