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Death toll rises to 73 in Houthi strike on Yemen training camp in deadliest attack in months
The strike wounded more than 200 recruits and left 14 missing, officials said, as fighting intensifies in Yemen.
- On Monday, Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile strike on a government security forces training camp in Shabwa province, killing 73 new recruits according to provincial officials.
- Shabwa, along with Marib and Hadramawt, contains what officials dub the government's "triangle of power," a strategic area in which the country's oil and gas production is located; fighting has escalated over three months.
- Provincial governor Awad Ibn al-Wazir reported more than 200 recruits were injured in the strike at the al-Alam facility, with victims aged between 18 and 20; 14 people remained missing.
- Defence Secretary Wes Streeting announced Tuesday that the United Kingdom is expanding military support for Saudi Arabia, with Royal Air Force jets conducting "defensive counter-air operations" protecting critical infrastructure.
- Streeting stressed that "the government remains clear that there is no long-term military solution to the conflict in Yemen," while officials continue supporting a UN-led political process as the primary route to durable peace.
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Toll from Houthi strike on Yemen govt camp rises to 73
Local Yemeni authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll from a Houthi strike a day earlier on a military camp belonging to government forces to 73, as fighting between the foes escalates. It marked the deadliest attack in weeks as fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognised, Saudi-supported government rages after the collapse of a years-long truce. The death toll from Monday's strike on the camp in the energ…
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