Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Yemen drone attack claims 7th victim

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SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s government has announced that the chief of its military intelligen­ce has died of wounds suffered during last week’s drone attack on an army parade.

It said President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, head of Yemen’s internatio­nally recognized government, sent a cable of condolence­s to the family of Maj. Gen. Mohammad Saleh Tamah, who died Sunday in a hospital in the southern port city of Aden.

Thursday’s attack by a bomb-laden drone targeted a military parade at the Al-Anad Air Base near Aden, killing six people immediatel­y. The attack was claimed by the anti-government Shiite rebels known as Houthis.

The use of a new drone variant raised more questions about Iran’s alleged role in arming the rebels with drone and ballistic missile technology, a claim long denied by Tehran.

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