Fire ravages UN food agency warehouse in Yemen

A fired ripped through a warehouse of the UN's World Food Programme on Saturday (March 31st) in Yemen's opposition-held Red Sea port of al-Hodeida, destroying humanitarian aid supplies, AFP reported.

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

A Houthi media outlet reported a "massive" blaze and said large quantities of aid were destroyed, without giving further details.

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

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