At least eight dead in fire at Yemeni migrant center, UN says
More than 170 people are injured after a fire erupted at a facility holding migrants in Yemen's Houthi-held capital of Sanaa.
At least eight people are dead after a fire ripped through a detention facility for migrants in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, the United Nations migration agency said Sunday.
More than 170 people are injured, with at least 90 in serious condition, according to Carmela Godeau, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) regional director.
“The cause of the fire incident in the holding facility remains unclear,” Godeau wrote on Twitter. “But this is just one of the many dangers that migrants have faced during the past 6 years of the crisis in Yemen.”
Yemen is embroiled in a civil war pitting the Iran-aligned Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition that intervened in 2015 on behalf of the internationally recognized government. The Houthi rebels, who control Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, have launched an offensive to take the oil-rich Marib province.
