60 killed as Houthi attack camp in Yemen's Marib

People walk at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shi'a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. File picture: Hani Mohammed/AP

People walk at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shi'a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. File picture: Hani Mohammed/AP

Published Jan 19, 2020

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Cairo - Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a

military training camp in the Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday,

killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens others, Saudi

state television said on Saturday evening.

Al Ekhbariya television quoted sources as saying the attack

was carried out with ballistic missiles and drones.

A proxy war has been playing out in Yemen between Iran and

Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to restore the

government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which the

Houthis ousted from power in the capital Sanaa and is now based

in the southern port city of Aden.

The Houthis, who hold Sanaa and most of Yemen's big urban

centres, deny being puppets of Iran and say they are fighting a

corrupt system.

Houthis militants did not immediately claim responsibility

for Saturday's attack. 

Reuters

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