By IANS/AKI,
Jaar (Yemen) : The toll from the explosion at a weapons factory in Yemen has climbed to 150, a media report said.
The explosion occurred Monday near the city of Jaar in Yemen’s south when fire at an adjacent warehouse containing munitions exploded, Arab-language satellite news channel al-Arabiya reported Tuesday.
The factory manufactures ammunition and Kalashnikov automatic rifles. Militants not linked to Al Qaeda reportedly seized the factory Sunday.
Yemen is facing anti-government protests a successionist rebellion in the south and a militant Islamist insurgency believed to driven by Al Qaeda in its south.