EFE
- 200 soldiers were wounded in shelling in error by the Arab coalition in southeastern Yemen.
- The Chief of Army said Hadi that “the bombing last night launched by the Arab coalition aviation was by mistake”.
At least 70 Yemeni soldiers loyal to President Abdo Rabu Mansur Hadi, killed and 200 wounded in shelling last night by the Arab coalition southeastern Yemen, said Wednesday Efe a military source.
Five air strikes of the coalition, which supports Hadi in the fight against hutíes rebels, beat the XXIII headquarters Mechanized Brigade in the area of Al Abar, in the province of href=”https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadramaut” Hadramut.
For his part, the Chief of Army Hadi, General Mohamed Ali al Meqdishi said in a statement that “launched the bombing last night Aviation Arab coalition was in error “ and caused” dead “, without specifying a figure.
The Barracks, the main center of recruitment and rearmament Army Hadi, is near the pass Al Abar border with Saudi Arabia, the only one still functioning and beyond the control of the rebels.
The target of the air strikes were apparently members the rebels hutíes and the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who try to take control of the border crossing, according to the military source.
Two days ago, over a hundred people, civilians, were killed and dozens were injured most in bombardments launched by the alliance led by Saudi Arabia href=”http://www.20minutos.es/minuteca/arabia-saudi/” against two areas in the hands of hutíes located in northern and southern Yemen.
Since the crisis worsened in Yemen with coalition air strikes, which began on 26 last March, there have been 3,000 deaths, 1,528 of them civilians. and a number of Arab countries intervened in Yemen in support of Hadi to prevent hutíes conquered the whole country after it took power in early February.
