Rocket Debris Kills 1, Injures 6 in Yemen
Antiaircraft gunners blew up two incoming north Yemeni missiles over Aden on Saturday, and the debris killed one person and wounded six others, officials said.
Police and hospital sources at Sheik Othman, six miles from the center of Aden, said debris from the destroyed missiles killed a 20-year-old man and injured six others, including a man in his 70s.
Northern officials have vowed vengeance for two Scud missile attacks on the capital, Sana, that killed 36 people.
Earlier, antiaircraft fire and flares lit up the night sky over Aden, which has been declared the capital of the southern breakaway state that southern leader Ali Salim Bidh said earlier this month was seceding after four years of unity with the north. The civil war between Bidh’s forces and troops loyal to his rival, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, erupted May 4.
“I stepped out of the car to watch the antiaircraft fire. Suddenly a black object was coming toward me and I did not know where to go,” Salah al Youssefi, 21, said from his hospital bed, where he was being treated for shrapnel wounds.
Witnesses said one missile appeared to be heading toward Aden’s main power station while the other was targeting Aden’s airport.
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