‘Attempted coup’: Airstrike targets Hadi’s Aden base

ADEN: An unidentified warplane attacked the presidential palace in Aden on Thursday after rival forces fought the worst clashes in years in Yemen’s second city, an official and residents said, in a sharp escalation of the country’s months-long conflict.
Thirteen people were killed when forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fought their way into Aden’s international airport and wrested an adjacent military base from a renegade officer, Aden governor Abdulaziz bin Habtoor said.
In a statement Hadi described the attack on Aden as an attempted coup backed by the previous regime. “The failure of the military coup... was backed by the former regime, which was one of the perpetrators of extermination,” said the presidential statement.
The statement made no reference to Saleh but said that “agents of Iran” had also backed the former regime’s forces.
“What happened today is a clear message to the whole world that the coup and their supporters of traitors reject any solutions or sit at the dialogue table in order to exit the crisis of Yemen to safety,” it added.
Earlier, Habtoor said on Aden television: “Aden is peaceful and things are back to normal after the rebellion was ended.