“[On Friday] We found landmines, auto bombs, SIM cards, mortar shells, ammunition, and mobiles used for remotely detonating bombs.” the official said.
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Ambulances raced to the police chief’s house after the explosion, which could be heard across the city, witnesses said.
More than 7,500 people have been killed in more than nine months of incessant air strikes, while millions more are reported to have been stranded across the country.
The air strike happened shortly before midnight on Sunday, according to the officials, who added that reporters were barred from approaching the facility. “They know what the target list is and they have a sense of what it is that we are doing and what we are not doing”, he told journalists in London after meeting British ministers and USA secretary of state, John Kerry.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the account.
Beginning bombing Yemen in March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has been repeatedly accused of inflicting airstrikes on civilian installations in Yemen.
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The UK government has been put on notice that it is in breach of worldwide lawfor allowing the export of British-made missiles and military equipment to Saudi Arabia that might have been used to kill civilians. A general loyal to Hadi was killed by a bomb planted in his vehicle in the central province of al-Baida, where the Houthis are fighting al-Qaida and local fighters.In Sanaa, unidentified gunmen shot dead Mohammad Radman, a senior official in the Special Security Forces, loyal to the Houthis. “The army combed the area looking for arms that the militants stored after the end of war with Al Houthis in Aden”, the official said on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. No group has claimed responsibility for the killings.
