Jimu news reporter Song Qingying
According to Agence France-Presse, on October 30, local time, an explosion occurred near the airport in Aden, the temporary capital of the Yemeni government, killing at least 12 civilians, the most serious explosion at Aden airport since December last year. Just three weeks before the explosion, there was a car bomb attack in Aden.
An explosion in Yemen's temporary capital (Credit: AFP)
Airport officials said a small truck near the airport suddenly exploded, filled with oil, and ignited a fire after the explosion. Security officials confirmed that at least 12 civilians were killed at the scene and many were seriously injured.
Deported by the Houthis, the Yemeni capital was moved from Sana'a to Aden in 2014. There is constant fighting between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Houthis. There have also been numerous attacks in places such as Aden, Yemen's temporary capital.
An explosion at Yemen's airport last December, when cabinet ministers were getting off planes, shook the airport and killed at least 26 people, including three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross. None of the cabinet members were reportedly injured, with some ministers saying the attack came from Houthi militants.
Just three weeks before the explosion, he survived a car bomb attack in Aden that killed six people, which was aimed at the governor of Aden.
But no one has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
Fighting has intensified in recent weeks at the few remaining strongholds in the north, with attacks on an almost daily basis since October 11.
In a community in Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, three children were killed and three others seriously injured, and the Yemeni government said the attack came from Houthi mortars.
Yemen has been at war for the past seven years. Yemen is home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which regularly attacks fighters allied with the country's government. The conflict in Yemen, which has displaced tens of thousands of civilians and lost a large number of civilian lives, has been called by the United Nations the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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