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Grenade fire hits Yemeni government's hotel base in Aden Yemeni prime minister escapes injury in hotel rocket attack
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A hotel in Yemen housing senior members of the official government was hit by up to three rocket-propelled grenades and caught fire, security sources and witnesses have said. A hotel in Yemen housing senior members of the official government has been hit by a rocket attack.
There were several dead and injured after the attack on Tuesday targeting the Qasr hotel in Aden, a local official told Agence France-Presse. Yemen’s prime minister, Khaled Bahah, escaped unharmed from the attack on the Qasr hotel in Aden, a minister said, while a local official told Agence France-Presse that several people had been killed and injured.
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Khaled Bahah – who is both Yemen’s vice-president and prime minister – has been installed along with ministers in Yemen’s second city after it was taken back from Shia Huthi rebels in mid-July. They had spent six months in exile in Saudi Arabia. Bahah – also the country’s vice-president – has been installed along with ministers in Yemen’s second city after it was taken back from Shia Houthi rebels in mid-July. They had spent six months in exile in Saudi Arabia.
Bahah and other key officials were unhurt in the attack, officials said. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi was believed to be out of the country. President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was believed to be out of the country.
The Qasr hotel has been the base of Hadi’s government since its gradual return from exile in Riyadh over recent weeks following the expulsion of the Iranian-allied Houthis. A security source and witnesses said the building had been hit by two rockets. Columns of smoke were rising from the building in the city’s western suburbs. Ambulances and civil defence forces attended the scene, witnesses said, adding that the rockets had struck the entrance of the hotel.
Columns of smoke were rising from the hotel in the city’s western suburbs on Tuesday morning, an AFP reporter said. The United Arab Emirates condemned the attack and suggested it was carried out by Houthi rebels and their main local ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Ambulances and civil defence forces were on the scene, witnesses said, adding that the rockets had hit the entrance of the hotel. The UAE foreign minister, Anwar Gargash , tweeted that the attack was further proof that the Houthis and Saleh were determined to destroy Yemen.
“The situation on the ground shows that they are waging a losing battle and that their role has been diminished to retreating on the ground and to try to inflict damage with mines, ambushes and rockets,” he said in another message.
A local newspaper, Aden al-Ghad, reported on its website that Bahah said after the attack he was determined to remain in the city.
The Qasr hotel has been the base of Hadi’s government since its gradual return from exile in Riyadh over recent weeks, after Houthi fighters were expelled in July.
The hotel has been guarded by troops from the UAE, one of the members of a Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting since March to end Houthi control of Yemen and restore Hadi to power in the capital, Sana’a.
With Agence France-Presse and ReutersWith Agence France-Presse and Reuters