14 killed as generator explodes in Yemen

Sanaa, July 15: Fourteen people, among them four children, were killed when a generator exploded in a village in Yemen, police officials said.

A total of 14 people, including eight women besides four children, were killed in the explosion late Saturday in Al-Kadam village in Mahweet province, about 150 km west of Sanaa, police officials said, adding that four people were seriously wounded and a two-storey house was destroyed.

Officials said the blast was caused as a short circuit in the generator ignited a large amount of stored fuel in a small underground room, reported Xinhua.

Yemenis widely use private generators and store large quantities of fuel in their houses to tide over frequent power outages in the impoverished Arab country.

IANS