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SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Rockets slammed into Yemen's port city of Aden on Tuesday, striking a hotel that is home to officials from the country's exiled government and two compounds used by Saudi-led coalition troops, killing at least 15 people, authorities said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Al Qasr Hotel & Resort, though blame immediately fell on the Shiite rebels known as Houthis that the Saudi-led coalition has been targeting since March.

The attack happened early Tuesday morning, with at least one rocket flying over the military walls now surrounding the 239-room hotel and resort along the Arabian Sea, located west of the port city's downtown. It smashed into the hotel's front, sending thick black smoke rising over it for hours as sirens wailed.

Rajeh Badi, a spokesman for Yemen's exiled government, told The Associated Press that attackers fired the rockets from outside the city limits. All government ministers and the prime minister were safe and unhurt, he said, adding that the Cabinet will hold an emergency meeting about the attack.

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