{"id":28946,"date":"2019-01-13T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28946"},"modified":"2019-01-13T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:23:09","slug":"top-yemen-intelligence-official-injured-in-houthi-drone-strike-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28946","title":{"rendered":"Top Yemen intelligence official injured in Houthi drone strike dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1434746\/middle-east\" readability=\"69\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: A high-ranking Yemeni intelligence official injured in a Houthi drone attack on the country&#8217;s largest air base died of his wounds on Sunday, medical sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIntelligence Brigadier General Saleh Tamah was wounded on Thursday in a strike on a military parade in Al-Anad air base, in government-held Lahij province some 60 kilometres\u00a0north of Yemen&#8217;s second city Aden.<\/p>\n<p>\nMedical sources told AFP that Tamah underwent several surgeries in a hospital in Aden but died Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt least seven &#8211; including Tamah &#8211; were killed and 11 injured in Thursday&#8217;s incident, which threatens to hamper United Nations-led peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong those injured were Yemen&#8217;s deputy chief of staff Saleh Al-Zandani, senior army commander Fadel Hasan and Lahij governor Ahmad Abdullah al-Turki.<\/p>\n<p>\nTurki and Zandani were transported to Saudi Arabia for treatment, a Yemeni official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UN voiced alarm on Friday following the attack and urged &#8220;all parties to the conflict to exercise restraint and refrain from further escalation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt talks in Sweden last month, the UN-brokered several agreements between the Iran-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-backed government seen as the best chance of ending nearly four years of devastating conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe warring sides agreed on truce deals for the key Houthi-held aid port of Hodeida and battleground third city Taiz.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UN is working to schedule a new round of consultations, possibly in Kuwait, aimed at drafting a political framework.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A high-ranking Yemeni intelligence official injured in a Houthi drone attack on the country&#8217;s largest air base died of his wounds on Sunday, medical sources said. Intelligence Brigadier General Saleh Tamah was wounded on Thursday in a strike on a military parade in Al-Anad air base, in government-held Lahij province some 60 kilometres\u00a0north of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}