under the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate limits left locals
wondering what led to the massive blast.
Five women were killed in war-torn Yemen when a
projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red
Sea port city of Hodeida, officials said Saturday.
The government and Huthi rebel forces blamed each other for the
Friday night bombing of the hall near Hodeida’s airport, a
frontline between the warring sides on the edge of the Huthi-held
town.
It came just two days after at least 26 people were killed in
blasts that rocked the airport of the southern city of Aden as
government ministers got off a plane.
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General Sadek Douid, the government representative in a
UN-sponsored joint commission overseeing a truce, condemned the
Hodeida blast, which also left seven wounded, as “an odious crime
committed by the Huthis against civilians”.
Hodeida’s Huthi-appointed governor, Mohammed Ayache, said on
Al-Masirah television, which is run by the Shiite Muslim rebels,
that “the forces of aggression never hesitate to blame others for
their crimes”.
Saudi-backed government forces launched an offensive in June
2018 to retake Hodeida, the main entry point for humanitarian aid
to poverty-stricken Yemen.
But a ceasefire has been partially observed since December of
the same year.
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