{"id":180,"date":"2016-10-08T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2016-10-08T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T16:03:29","slug":"dozens-dead-in-explosions-at-funeral-in-yemens-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2016\/10\/08\/dozens-dead-in-explosions-at-funeral-in-yemens-sanaa\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dozens dead’ in explosions at funeral in Yemen’s Sanaa"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Al Jazeera) Dozens of people have been killed or wounded in at least two explosions at a funeral reception in Sanaa, according to Houthi-controlled media sources.<\/p>\n

Saba news agency, which is aligned with the Iran-allied Houthi group, accused an Arab coalition\u00a0fighter jet of striking the grand hall of ceremonies on al-Khamseen Street in the Yemeni capital on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

However, other reports said that suicide bombers were responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n

Hakim al-Masmari, the editor of the Yemen Post, told Al Jazeera that the venue was hit by four strikes.<\/p>\n

“Initially two, then after the plane circled around, a further two. The planes were heard and seen in the skies by multiple people.<\/p>\n

“At least 130 people have been killed and more than 300 injured. Senior intelligence and military officials were present, and Sanaa’s mayor Abdul-Qader Hilal was confirmed killed,” al-Masmari said.<\/p>\n

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A large plume of smoke was billowing over Sanaa following the explosions [Yemen Post]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Al Jazeera has not yet been able to independently verify the death toll.<\/p>\n

Saba cited a security source as saying that the coalition air strikes occurred as the funeral reception was under way for the father of Brigadier Jalal al-Ruweishan,\u00a0interior minister in the self-proclaimed Houthi government.<\/p>\n

The source said al-Ruweishan\u00a0was present at the event. It is not clear whether he survived the attack.<\/p>\n

The attacks caused a large fire at the grand hall, which was largely destroyed, said the Sabaa report.<\/p>\n

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(Al Jazeera) Dozens of people have been killed or wounded in at least two explosions at a funeral reception in Sanaa, according to Houthi-controlled media sources. Saba news agency, which is aligned with the Iran-allied Houthi group, accused an Arab coalition\u00a0fighter jet of striking the grand hall of ceremonies on al-Khamseen Street in the Yemeni capital on Saturday afternoon. However,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}