Local Editor

A hotel in Yemen’s second city of Aden where toppled Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi’s Prime Minister Khaled Bahah was staying with members of the government was on fire after being hit by three rockets on Tuesday, a security source and witnesses said.

People had been left "dead and wounded" by the attack, a local official said on condition of anonymity, without saying if that included any members of government.

Bahah and his ministers have been installed in Aden after spending six months in Saudi Arabia.

The rockets had hit the entrance of the hotel, witnesses said. 

According to the information, at least 18 people were killed in the rocket-propelled grenade attack.

Those killed are said to be mostly soldiers from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] guarding the Qasr Hotel, where a number of officials from the former Yemeni regime.

This comes as Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies, including the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, began to launch a military aggression against Yemen by launching air strikes against the country in an attempt to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia. 

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.