“24 soldiers died, 20 were injured in a missile attack on the barracks for draftees in the Al Mlil area in the north-west of the province of Mareb,” RIA Novosti quoted a Yemeni military source as saying.

It is noted that the missile was supposedly ballistic.

Earlier it was reported that as a result of the explosion at a military parade in the Yemeni province of al-Dahlia, nine people were killed.