Deaths in a huge fire in a commercial store in Mansoura, north of Aden

A number of workers were killed, Thursday morning, as a result of a fire that broke out inside a paper and printed materials store in the Mansoura District, north of Aden Governorate (southern Yemen).

Local sources said that a fire engulfed the newly established Al-Nabras store for paper and printed materials in Mansoura District, causing human losses and significant material damage.

The sources added that six factory workers are believed to have been inside the factory when the fire broke out. Civil Defense rescue teams, who rushed to the scene, recovered the bodies of two of them, while the search for the others is still under the rubble.

The sources attributed the fire to an electrical short circuit.