Houthi forces on Monday shelled an oil refinery in the southern city of Aden, hitting an empty fuel tank with a rocket, Reuters reported.
"The refinery suffered today a new rocket which targeted an empty storage tank at the refinery port," Nasser Shayef, a media official at the Aden refinery, told Reuters by telephone.
"In the refinery's tanks there's a large amount of petrol and diesel which the shelling did not reach ... we fear a catastrophe if there's new shelling," he added.
This was the second time the refinery had been targeted in three days. A similar attack on Saturday killed the facility's director of operations and destroyed a pipeline connecting the refinery to the city’s port.
The pipeline is the the last connection to the port that remains in the hands of local fighters, Reuters reported.
