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Several explosions killed at least 26 people and injured more than 50 on Wednesday at the airport in Aden, Yemen’s makeshift capital, as a plane carrying the warring country’s new union government had just landed.
According to an AFP correspondent, at least two explosions occurred when the plane landed and officials began to emerge from inside.
Medical and government sources indicated the AFP that there were at least 26 dead and more than 50 injured, according to the latest balance.
Noises of explosions and gunshots were heard before a thick black smoke from an airport building as debris fell, lor that it caused panic among those present, according to images from the Saudi television channel Al-Hadath.
“We are fine,” tweeted the new Foreign Minister Ahmed ben Mubarak.
Call for an investigation
Government spokesman Rajeh Badi called for an “international investigation into this criminal act.”
Among the victims are civilians, security guards and local officials, but all members of the government “are fine,” he told AFP.
The plane was arriving from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, where the Yemeni government went into exile after the Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa in September 2014 as well as vast regions of the country, sparking a bloody war.
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