Rebels kill 25 in Yemen school attack

SHI’ITE rebels killed at least 25 people and wounded 70 others in an attack on a Sunni Islamist school in northern Yemen, a tribal source said yesterday.

The attack targeted the Dar al-Hadith school, a Muslim fundamentalist centre set up in the 1980s to train Sunni preachers in Dammaj, a suburb of the Shi’ite stronghold city of Saada, said the same source.

Dar al-Hadith, which is attended by students from Yemen and many other countries, is seen as a Sunni threat by Shi’ite Huthis who dominate the northern region.