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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More than 200 people were injured and 14 remain missing following the impact of three missiles at Al Alam camp in Shabwa province
On Tuesday, the Governor of Shabwah al-Yemen, second to the son of the Minister, announced that the death toll of the Al-Houthi rocket attack on a security post in Shabwah had risen to 73.
Death toll from Houthi attack on Yemen training camp rises to 73
An attack by Yemen's Houthi movement on a government security forces training camp in Shabwa province killed 73 people, the provincial media office said, raising the toll from Monday's strike as fighting intensifies.
Death toll in Houthi attack on Yemeni government forces rises to 73
The death toll from a Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen rose to 73 people, all new recruits, making it the deadliest strike since fighting began escalating three months ago, a senior Yemeni government official said.
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The Washington PostDeath toll rises to 73 in Houthi strike on Yemen training camp in deadliest attack in months
A senior Yemeni official says that a Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen has killed 73 people, all new recruits.
The death toll from a missile strike by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a government military camp in southern Yemen has risen to 73, making it the deadliest attack since the country's fighting escalated three months ago, a senior Yemeni government official said, The Associated Press reported. 12 killed, more than 300 wounded in Houthi attack on Riyadh airport All the dead were recruits aged between 18 and 20, and some are still missing a day after the …
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