A UN envoy arrived in Yemen for talks ahead of a planned five-day humanitarian ceasefire, with dozens reported dead in Saudi-led bombing of an arms depot in the capital.
The truce, proposed by Riyadh and due to take effect at 11:00 pm (2000 GMT), aims to allow deliveries of desperately needed relief supplies, although aid groups have already warned that five days is insufficient.
Explosions at an arms depot hit by several coalition strikes since Monday left at least 69 people dead and 250 others wounded in Sanaa, most of them civilians, a medical official says.
The blasts at a military base at Mount Noqum, in the eastern outskirts of Yemen’s rebel-held capital, lasted until midday on Tuesday after coalition strikes sent debris crashing into a residential area at the foot of the mountain.
The depot was bombed again on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent says.
— AFP
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