The key facts

  • Two security personnel were killed in the strike on the Maashiq palace in Aden; the prime minister and government were unharmed.
  • Yemen's information minister reported five missiles fired.
  • The Houthis said the targets were the Saudi military operations headquarters and weapons depots; Reuters could not confirm this.

Attack on the presidential palace in Aden

Two security personnel were killed as a result of a missile strike on the Maashiq presidential palace complex in southern Yemen's Aden. The prime minister and government members who were in the complex at the time of the attack were unharmed. Three witnesses told the Reuters agency they had heard powerful explosions near the palace.

Data on the number of missiles and circumstances

Two government officials told Reuters that the Houthis carried out missile strikes on the complex on Thursday. Yemen's Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said a total of five missiles were fired at the complex.

Houthi statements

The Houthi-controlled SABA agency, citing a military official, reported that the strike was aimed at the operations headquarters under the command of the Saudi military and weapons depots. Reuters could not independently confirm this information. The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree characterized the strike as part of the policy of striking locations of the Saudi Arabian armed forces.