10 people were injured in the Taiz weapons store explosion
10 people were injured according to a preliminary toll, on Wednesday, due to the explosion of a weapons warehouse belonging to a Muslim Brotherhood military force in a building located in the middle of a residential neighborhood in the city of Taiz.
A series of violent explosions hit a facility used by the Yemeni Brotherhood as a weapons and ammunition store in the Al-Kawthar residential neighborhood near the former Al-Huraish Street in the center of Taiz, according to a local source to Al-Ain News.
The source confirmed that successive explosions hit a facility in the “Central Organization for Oversight and Accounting” square, which is a governmental anti-corruption oversight body, in which several buildings are located that the Brotherhood uses as barracks, a secret prison, and ammunition stores, and which belongs to a military battalion affiliated with the “22nd Mechanized Brigade” in the Taiz axis.< /p>
Other medical sources reported that 10 civilians were injured with various injuries, including 6 from one family, in the explosion of the weapons store in the facility located in the heart of the residential neighborhood.
The explosion came amid a security ban imposed by the Brotherhood in the region, and video clips circulated by activists showed artillery shells flying from the facility while citizens gathered to watch white smoke columns rising into the sky.
The explosion once again sheds light on the public and private facilities in Taiz that the Brotherhood uses as military barracks and refuses to evacuate despite their repeated directives, the most recent of which was a committee formed by the President of the Presidential Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, during his recent visit to the city.
Taiz, which includes the largest population bloc in Yemen, is shared between the Brotherhood and the Houthis, as the militias control 7 districts in the east, north, and west, while 16 districts are considered liberated, including the city that is under security and military control of the Islah Party, the political arm of the organization.
