Mar 31, 2018

A fired ripped through a warehouse of the UN's World Food Programme on Saturday in Yemen's rebel-held Red Sea port of Hodeida, destroying humanitarian aid supplies, authorities said.

Hodeida is Yemen's largest port and a lifeline for people in the war-battered country dependent on food imports and, according to the United Nations, on the verge of famine.

The Saba news agency of the Huthi rebels reported a "massive" blaze and said large quantities of aid was destroyed, w

ithout giving further details.

An official in Hodeida told AFP that four warehouses were engulfed in flames and estimated that 50 tonnes of foodstuff was destroyed.