 Four people have been killed and 14 wounded - including eight primary school students - after a warehouse exploded in southern Yemen, security officials say. Investigations are under way to determine the cause of Saturday's explosion in the warehouse in Muderiyat al-Sawadiyah, a town in al-Baydaa province, about 220km southwest of the capital, Sanaa. The building, owned by a weapons merchant, was in a residential area in the middle of the town, near Tariq Bin Ziyad elementary school.
| That's a logical place to put it... |
It was not known if any ammunition was in the warehouse. A security official said the owner did not have permission to store any.
| So it was prob'ly a gas main or an asteroid or something... |
Three homes were flattened in the early evening blast, the security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
He said eight of the wounded were seriously hurt. |