Explosions at Aden airport claim at least 16 dead and 60 injured



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PAt least two explosions were felt at the airport when the plane landed on the runway and those responsible for the new government began to leave, according to the French news agency. AFP, which had a correspondent on site.

An airport security source had previously informed the AFP that there were several wounded, but none among the ministers present.

Images broadcast by the television station Saudi Alabama-Hadath show a thick cloud of black smoke coming from an airport building and flying debris after hearing sounds of explosions and gunshots that caused panic among those present.

“We are fine,” wrote the new Foreign Minister Ahmed. ben Mubarak, in a message posted on the social network Twitter.

The source of the blast is still unknown, but airport officials told the Associated Press that they saw bodies dumped on the runway and in other parts of the airport.

The Minister of Information, Muammar Alabama-Eat, also posted a message on Twitter, in which he accused the rebels Huthis of the “terrorist attack”.

The first Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, also referred to the event as a “cowardly terrorist act”, but did not Huthis directly.

“This will only increase our determination to do our duty,” he wrote.

the Huthisbut also from groupsjihadists‘To the-Qaeda and state Islamonkey, carried out attacks in the past against the Government of Yemen And yours supporters.

The ministers were returning to Aden after taking office last week as part of a shakeup following a deal with rival southern separatists.

The government of Yemen exercised, during years of civil war in the country, in exile self imposed in Capital Saudi.

The president of Yemen, A bed Rabbo Mansour we go, also in exile in Saudi Arabia, announced a government shakeup earlier this month.

The country, poor and devastated by conflict, formed a new government of unity between partisan and separatist ministers on 18 December, At aegis from Saudi Arabia.

The two sides, which disputed power in the south, are nevertheless allies against the rebels. Huthi, supported by Iran, which seized much of the north of the country, including the capital Sanaa.

Deep divisions in the anti-Huthi emerged in recent years between supporters government and separatists from the south, who accuse them of corruption and collusion with islamonkeys.

Saudi Arabia negotiated a power-sharing agreement in the south and has been trying for more than a year to form a new unity government to hold together the coalition against the Huthis, who have come closer Marib, last stronghold of the northern government.

Not to war Yemen sank the country, the poorest in the peninsula Arabica, in the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to He-she-it, with almost the entire population on the brink of hunger and threatened by epidemics.

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