Aden (IINA) – Yemen's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah escaped unhurt Tuesday after a rocket attack killed and wounded several people at a hotel in the southern city of Aden, AFP reported citing a minister.

"Prime Minister Khaled Bahah is in good health and was not harmed," said Naif al-Bakri, minister of youth and sports.

A security source and witnesses said the building had been hit by two rockets.

People had been left "dead and wounded" by the attack, a local official told AFP, without saying if that included any members of government.

He added that one of the rockets hit the hotel's main entrance and that a third rocket fired at the building had missed and landed in the sea.

Bahah and his ministers have been installed in Aden, after it was declared Yemen's provisional capital following its recapture from the Houthi rebels in mid-July.

Columns of smoke were rising from Al-Qasr Hotel in the city's western suburbs on Tuesday morning, an AFP reporter said.

Ambulances and civil defense forces were on the scene, according to witnesses.

A separate rocket attack targeted a nearby barracks used by pro-government forces, residents said, but failed to hit its target.

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