More than 30 people killed in an attack on military parade in Yemen

More than 30 people were killed in a missile and drone attack on Thursday in a military parade by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

The parade was going on in the Southern port city of Aden.

Soldiers screamed and ran to lift the wounded and place them on trucks. Red berets lay on the ground in pools of blood.

Medecins Sans Frontieres tweeted that tens of wounded were hospitalised in Aden after an explosion, but later said it was a separate one at a police station on Thursday in the southern port city. It said 10 people were killed and 16 injured there.

The Houthi’s official channel Al Masirah TV said the group had launched a medium-range ballistic missile and an armed drone at the parade, which it described as being staged in preparation for a military move against provinces held by the movement.

Earlier on Thursday, a suicide bombing at a police station in Aden killed at least three officers. It is not clear if this incident was linked to the attack on the military camp.

Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in March 2015, when the Houthi rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.

Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia Muslim power Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Muslim Arab states began an air campaign aimed at restoring Hadi's government.