Blasts shake Yemen as coalition hits arms depot [video report]

telegraph.co.uk ^

[BenLurkin]

Powerful explosions rocked Yemen's capital on Monday as warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition targeted a rebel arms depot, with medics reporting five dead and 20 wounded in twin strikes.

The raid on the depot in the Mount Noqum area on the eastern outskirts of Sanaa triggered several blasts, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said.

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Monday's attack came a day ahead of a hoped-for five-day humanitarian truce proposed by the Saudi-led coalition which launched strikes against rebels in late March in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

The huge explosions sent artillery pieces flying, with one crashing into the roof of a residential building, the witnesses said.

Thick black smoke billowed skywards from the site and other debris was scattered across residential areas at the foot of the hill.

[expat2]

Sunnis 1, Shi’ites 0 today.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

That cease fire thingy is workin’ great!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Nothing can beat the flying car video.

[jmacusa]

Who are we rooting for?

[expat2]

a tie — or at least a long-running “close-run thing”.

[jmacusa]

Man, I’m confused. This is like two scorpions in a bottle, ya know?

[expat2]

Yep — and you wouldn’t put your hand in the bottle, would you?

[jmacusa]

I can. Apache Clips.com. Saw a video from Iraq in ‘06. An Apache infra red of a bunch of Iraqis after unloading on some US convoy ran down an alley and they're peeping and hiding. Suddenly they start running but too late. Bam!! A Hellfire hits ‘em right in the middle and I swear to God, one of ‘em(what was left of him anyway) just takes off in the air, like ten feet or more almost at a straight angle. This dude looked like a flying carpet. I ran that video back and forth a dozen times. I laughed myself sick. “Flying Jihadis’’ I called it.

[jmacusa]

Nope.