Nine years ago today a Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Anglo-American make warplanes armed to the teeth with western-made missiles and bombs attacked an army base in the mountainous outskirts of Sana’a in Faj Attan killing at the time of the reporting at least 25 people and injuring over 400 civilians.
The explosion occurred in the Faj Attan area of the capital, near the presidential compound.
“dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded,”
The blast hit the base on Faj Attan mountain beside Hadda district, home to the presidential palace and many embassies, and sent a thick pillar of smoke into the air.

It was the largest explosion in more than three weeks of bombing by the Saudi-led coalition.

The explosion shook buildings in far away neighbourhoods.

“Scores of residents were also injured in an earlier airstrike on a weapons depot in Faj ‘Attan, on the outskirts of Sana’a, on 20 April.
All of the residents affected by the Mount Nuqum or Faj ‘Attan blasts told Amnesty International that no advance warning was given by coalition forces of an impending attack despite the apparent feasibility of such warnings and the likelihood that civilians living in such close proximity to the known storage facilities would be injured by secondary blasts. Failing to give an effective advance warning under these circumstances is a violation of the rules of international humanitarian law. The extensive harm to the civilian population resulting from these attacks also raises concerns about the proportionality of these strikes.”