Cyclone batters Chapala-arid and war-torn Yemen, thousands fleeing their homes
Cyclone batters Chapala-arid and war-torn Yemen, thousands fleeing their homes Hurricane-force winds with hurricane landfall on the coast of Yemen on the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, flooding the fifth largest city in the country Mukalla and sending thousands fleeing for shelter. Officials say the meteorologists said the storm is the most densely contracts in the country's arid, which is hampered by poverty and civil war raging storm response. In the provincial capital of Mukalla, who ruled largely by al-Qaeda militants since the army withdrew in April, 300,000 people, flooded cars in the streets of the city and caused dozens of families to flee to the hospital for fear of rockfalls. Residents said destroyed the waterfront promenade and many homes because of the hurricane, and called for Chapala, officials in the remote Shabwa province dry, said about 6,000 people moved to higher ground. ; "The night was difficult but passed off peacefully. I knocked th...