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Blast in Yemen weapons factory: Death toll
climbs to 150
Wednesday March 30, 2011 10:27:21 AM,
AKI
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Jaar (Yemen): The
toll from the explosion at a weapons factory in Yemen has climbed to
150, a media report said.
The explosion occurred Monday near the city of Jaar in Yemen's south
when fire at an adjacent warehouse containing munitions exploded,
Arab-language satellite news channel al-Arabiya reported Tuesday.
The factory manufactures ammunition and Kalashnikov automatic
rifles. Militants not linked to Al Qaeda reportedly seized the
factory Sunday.
Yemen is facing anti-government protests a successionist rebellion
in the south and a militant Islamist insurgency believed to driven
by Al Qaeda in its south.
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