Yemen's Hodeida battles port blaze after deadly Israel strike
The Peninsula
Hodeida, Yemen: Firefighting teams on Sunday were still battling a blaze at the Huthi run port in Yemen s Hodeida, hours after an Israeli strike on th...
Hodeida, Yemen: Firefighting teams on Sunday were still battling a blaze at the Huthi-run port in Yemen's Hodeida, hours after an Israeli strike on the harbour triggered a massive fire and killed three people, according to the rebels.
Saturday's strike on the vital port, a key entry point for fuel and humanitarian aid, is the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, about 2,000 kilometres (1,300 miles) away.
It killed three people and wounded 87, many of them with severe burns, the health ministry said in a statement.
Firefighters struggled to contain the blaze at the Hodeida port, with thick plumes of black smoke shrouding the sky above the city, said an AFP correspondent in the area.