Rockets hit hotel housing top Yemeni officials in Aden

ADEN, Yemen

At least 12 people were killed Tuesday in a rocket attack that targeted a hotel hosting top Yemeni officials in the southern city of Aden.

A senior government source said that no officials were hurt in the attack.

“The hotel, which houses government officials, was targeted by two rockets that were launched from Taiz province, which is partially controlled by the Houthi Shia militia,” a security source in Aden told Anadolu Agency.

On Sept. 22, President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi chaired a cabinet meeting in Aden, the temporary capital, after returning to the war-torn country from Saudi Arabia.

Hadi had spent six months in Riyadh after fleeing Yemen a year earlier when capital Sanaa was overrun by the Shia Houthi militant group.

Yemen descended into chaos in September 2014, after the Houthis overran Sanaa.