Houthi fire kills civilians in Yemen’s Aden

A man checks the wreckage of a car at the site of a car bomb attack in Yemen's catpital Sanaa June 17, 2015. Four car bombs hit three mosques and the political headquarters of the Houthi movement in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, a security official said, killing and wounding dozens of people. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Houthi militia fire on a residential district of Yemen’s battleground second city Aden killed at least 31 civilians and wounded over 100 early Wednesday, a senior health official said in an updated toll.

The city’s health chief al-Khader Laswar said three women and two children were among the dead, AFP reported.
The Iranian-backed Houthi militias and their allies pounded the city’s loyalist-held Al-Mansura district with 15 Katyusha rockets from their positions in the Dar Saad neighborhood, loyalist forces spokesman Ali al-Ahmadi told Agence France-Presse.

The rocket fire began before dawn when the streets were busy ahead of the daytime fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, Ahmadi said.

A fresh salvo of rockets later in the morning hit mourners burying some of the dead from the earlier fire, the spokesman and witnesses said.

“Many of the wounded are in serious condition,” a medical source told AFP.

Aden was the last refuge of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi before he fled into exile in neighboring Saudi Arabia in March and his loyalists have been battling to defend it against the rebels with the support of Saudi-led air strikes.

Source: Alarabiya

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