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Urgent: Fighter jet bombs presidential palace, no casualties: source

Xinhua, March 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

A fighter jet that took off from Yemen's capital of Sanaa bombed the republican palace where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stays in the southern port city of Aden on Thursday afternoon, a government official based in Aden told Xinhua.

"The military warplane fired one rocket on a building inside the republican palace in Aden, causing material damages only, without any casualties," the official said on condition of anonymity. Endit