[SimoneFlen']

An explosion took place at the meeting of the new government at the airport in Aden, Yemen. At least 5 people were killed, another twenty-three people were injured.

The very moment of the powerful explosion was broadcast live on local television.

UPDATE:

SANAA, Yemen - A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed there, security officials said. At least 16 people were killed and 60 were wounded in the blast.

The source of the blast was not immediately clear and no group claimed responsibility for attacking the airport.

AP footage from the scene showed members of the government delegation disembarking as the blast shook the grounds. No one on the government plane was hurt but many ministers rushed back inside the plane or ran down the stairs, seeking shelter.

Thick smoke rose into the air from the near the terminal building. Officials at the scene said they saw bodies lying on the tarmac and elsewhere at the airport.

Yemeni Communication Minister Naguib al-Awg, who was also on the government plane, told The Associated Press that he heard two explosions, suggesting they were drone attacks. Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed and the others were quickly whisked away from the airport to the Mashiq Palace in the city.

“It would have been a disaster if the plane was bombed,” he said, insisting the plane was the target of the attack as it was supposed to land earlier.

Explosions rocked Yemen's Aden airport on Wednesday shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying members of a new unity government, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. "At least two explosions were heard as the cabinet members were leaving the aircraft, " the correspondent said. Yemen's internationally recognised government and southern separatists formed a new power-sharing cabinet on December 18, and arrived in the southern city of Aden on Wednesday, days after being sworn in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed al-Roubid, deputy head of Aden’s health office, told the AP that at least 16 people were killed in the explosion and 60 were wounded.

Images shared on social media from the scene showed rubble and broken glass strewn about near the airport building and at least two lifeless bodies, one of them charred, lying on the ground. In another image, a man was trying to help another man whose clothes were torn to get up from the ground.

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According to one Yemeni security official, three Red Cross workers were among the wounded, though it was not clear if they were Yemenis or of other nationalities. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

The U.N. special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, condemned the explosion as an “unacceptable act of violence.” He said in a tweet that it was “a tragic reminder of the importance of bringing #Yemen urgently back on the path towards peace.”

The ministers were returning to Aden after being sworn in last week as part of a reshuffle following a deal with rival southern separatists. Yemen’s internationally recognized government has worked mostly from self-imposed exile in the Saudi capital of Riyadh during the country’s years-long civil war.

[Shocker314]

Nice, quick post, Simone!
Reports now of 16 dead and 60 wounded.

[SimoneFlen']

Originally Posted by Shocker314 ↗

Nice, quick post, Simone!
Reports now of 16 dead and 60 wounded.

Many thanks.

Aww, damn, that's a shame that the number has gone up + no doubt will continue.

[imbok]

I wonder if anyone was killed by those undisciplined idiots firing off rounds just for the hell of it. "Hey, there was an explosion, let's start shooting!"

[pragmatist]

There’s something you don’t see at Heathrow or Gatwick every day.

[Kurlis]

Iran did it

[Shellshock86]

Hell of a job by the camera man, regaining his wits and whipping the camera around.

[murofhsirgo]

One of the more cowardly ways to hurt folks:(

[RogerSmithLikesDrugs]

I thought I saw an r.v.

[wolfie]

I can't tell the good ones from the bad ones.