In brief
More than 50 Yemen security recruits and 200 others were hit by a Houthi missile attack on a training centre in Shabwa province. The strike, aimed at a camp used by internal security forces, was described by authorities as a war crime because the site was not a military target. The attack comes amid a renewed Saudi-backed offensive seeking to regain control in the western part of the country. Yemen’s civil war, which began in 2014, has intensified with both sides launching missiles and drone attacks against each other’s infrastructure.
A Houthi missile strike on a training camp in Yemen’s Shabwa province left more than 50 security personnel dead and over 200 injured, officials said, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s recent conflict flare‑up.
Local authorities report that the bombed facility, the Martyr Ahmed al‑Sulaimani Training Centre, housed recruits from several provinces preparing to join the government’s internal security forces. Ambulances rushed wounded to nearby hospitals, which were quickly overwhelmed, and some critically injured were flown to Aden and Hadramout for treatment.
Yemen’s President‑Leadership Council condemned the attack as a “criminal” act and warned of a “firm response.” The Houthi group’s spokesperson claimed the missiles targeted a gathering of “Saudi enemy” forces run by coalition officers, a claim disputed by Yemeni officials who called the attack a war crime.
The incident follows a wave of Saudi‑backed air strikes and Houthi missile and drone activity across the country and again in the neighbouring Gulf, underscoring the perilous cycle of retaliation that continues to inflict civilian and security casualties in Yemen.
