Plane attacks Hadi's Aden base in deepening Yemen turmoil
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An unidentified warplane attacked the presidential palace in Aden on Thursday after rival forces fought the worst clashes in years in Yemen's second city, an official and residents said, in a sharp escalation of the country's months-long turmoil.
Thirteen people were killed when forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fought their way into Aden's international airport and wrested an adjacent military base from a renegade officer, Aden governor Abdulaziz bin Habtoor said.
Both the fighting on the ground and subsequent air attack appeared to be part of a deepening power struggle between Hadi and the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group, which controls the capital Sanaa and is allied with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In a televised speech Habtoor accused the Houthis of being behind the air attack on the compound in Aden's al-Maasheeq district, where Hadi is based, but said the bomb "had fallen harmlessly into the sea".
"Aden is peaceful and things are back to normal after the rebellion was ended," he said on Aden television. A Houthi spokesman could not immediately be reached for commnent.
