Houthi strike on Yemen government military camp kills at least 50
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The Iran-backed group has claimed responsibility for the attack which killed new recruits at a military camp. The strikes follow deadly attacks over the weekend blamed on Saudi-led forces.
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At least 50 Yemeni government forces were killed in a strike by Houthi rebels on a military camp in the south of the country on Monday, military officials said.
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The group fired three ballistic missiles at the al-Alam camp in the province of Shabwa. Some 200 recruits were also wounded, according to the provincial government.
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The Houthis confirmed that they had targeted the camp.
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Military sources had originally put the death toll at 30, but this rose to at least 50 later in the day, with the Associated Press giving a toll of 53 and citing provincial authorities.
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"The death toll has risen to at least 50, with more than 100 people injured, some of them in critical condition," Fahad al-Khalifi, deputy governor of Shabwa said, according to AFP.
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Al-Khalifi added that local hospitals had been overwhelmed and some of the more seriously wounded had been transferred to facilities in other provinces.
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The increased death toll makes Monday's attack one of the deadliest in the recent uptick of violence in Yemen.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Fighting in Yemen between the Iran-backed Houthis and the Saudi-backed government has been going on for years, but the US-Israeli war on Iran and other factors have sparked renewed fighting in the peninsula, with the Houthis also carrying out major attacks on Saudi Arabian soil.
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Officials said that the soldiers who were killed and wounded in the attack had been recruits for a new Rapid Intervention force which is supposed to defend the local area.
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The missiles reportedly struck while they were lining up in formation ahead of training.
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Rashad al-Alimi, head of the ruling Presidential Leadership Council, vowed a "firm response" for the killing of the recruits and said the attack reflects the Houthis' "approach of resorting to cowardly terrorist attacks whenever they face pressures or their Iranian-backed sabotage plots falter."
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Monday's strikes follow several attacks over the weekend that killed more than 30 people in Houthi-held areas.
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