ADEN, Yemen, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 soldiers were killed and more than 30 others injured on Monday after three missiles struck a government military training base in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa, a government military official and a local medical source told Xinhua.
The local military official, who requested anonymity, said the three missiles targeted Al-Alam military base, particularly a training camp within the facility in Jardan district, near Ataq, the provincial capital, blaming the attack on the Houthi group.
Footage circulating on social media showed numerous casualties at the scene. The local medical source said that the casualty figures remained preliminary and could rise.
Emergency and medical teams continued evacuating the wounded to hospitals in Shabwa, while some of the bodies recovered from the camp were badly burned, complicating efforts to establish a final toll, the medical source said.
Al-Alam is a large military facility in Jardan district used by forces aligned with Yemen's internationally recognized government and supported by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
The Houthis had not claimed responsibility for the attack. The incident came amid intensified fighting and exchanges of attacks between the Houthis and government forces supported by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition across several fronts in Yemen.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since late 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and much of the country's north. A Saudi Arabia-led coalition intervened in 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government. ■
