Houthis Strike Yemen Presidential Palace with Missiles... "5 Dead, Prime Minister Safe"
Targets Yemeni Government and Saudi-Led Coalition Leadership
Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a missile attack targeting the presidential palace in Aden, the interim capital of the Yemeni government. Yemeni authorities said five people were killed in the attack, but Prime Minister Shaya al-Zindani, who was at the scene, was safe. The Houthis' indiscriminate attacks reaching the top ranks of the Yemeni government have raised concerns that the civil war will escalate further.
According to Al Jazeera on October 15 local time, the Houthi rebels launched a missile attack on the Al-Maashiq presidential palace compound in Aden, Yemen, which is being used as the government's headquarters. Yemeni authorities said the Houthis attacked the area around the palace compound with five missiles, killing five people, including security personnel on site and civilian staff, and injuring 16.
The Associated Press reported that residents of Aden were urgently evacuated after the attack, causing widespread panic. A local security official told the AP that at least two explosions were heard at the top of a hill near the Al-Maashiq presidential palace, while two more were heard below a security gate on the access road leading up to the palace.
Prime Minister al-Zindani, who was at the scene, was reportedly safe. Citing a Yemeni government minister who requested anonymity, AFP reported, "The Yemeni prime minister was at the site at the time of the attack but was unharmed," adding that "the Houthi rebels struck the Yemeni government forces' command post with three missiles and the Saudi-led coalition's command post with the remaining two."
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Shortly after the attack, the Houthi rebels said in a statement that they had launched a missile attack on the Yemeni presidential palace. The Houthis claimed that they had "carried out a missile attack targeting the war operations center and weapons depot in the Al-Maashiq Palace in Aden, where Saudi officers are in command." Saba News Agency, a media outlet affiliated with the Houthi rebels, reported, citing Yemeni government officials, that "a number of Saudi officials were killed or injured."
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