Yemen’s Hadi escapes Aden residence after airstrike

‘Yemen’s fugitive president has reportedly escaped his palace in the southern port city of Aden after warplanes pounded the area.

According to reports on Thursday, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi was forced to escape his residence in Aden after two fighter jets targeted his residence.

Officials close to Hadi claimed later that he was not in the compound at the time of the attack as he had been transferred to a safe place. They did not provide further details on Hadi’s new location.

They also claimed that the planes belonged to the Ansarullah movement which controls the capital Sana’a and some major cities in Yemen. They said that former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh has been instrumental in the attack.’

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