On Tuesday, Shabwa’s media office raised the toll. Three Houthi ballistic missiles, on Monday, on the Martyr Ahmed al-Sulaimani training centre, al-Alam camp, near Ataq. Recruits for the internal security forces. 73 dead, 14 missing. On Monday the same office: 53 dead, about 200 injured. Two days, two numbers. A local tally. Not an independent confirmation. Dump BBC.

Governor Awad bin al-Wazir received the figures from an investigative committee, the BBC writes. Anadolu, from SABA: he announced them on Tuesday, at a meeting about the wounded. He called for those responsible to be held to account. That is his demand. It is not a court. Hospitals in the province sent the worst cases to Hadramaut and Aden, deputy governor Fahad al-Khalifi told AFP.

Rashad al-Alimi condemned a “criminal attack” and promised a firm response. A promise. Not the response already delivered. Information minister Moammar al-Eryani: an internal-security centre, not a military target; he speaks of a war crime. That is the government’s charge. It is not a verdict.

Houthi spokesman Yahya Sarea: the missiles hit “Saudi enemy concentrations”, a camp run by Saudi officers. That is his version. Saudi authorities had no immediate comment. Two claimed targets. Police recruits versus Saudi forces. Do not mix them. There is no independent proof.

The BBC: the deadliest reported strike since the war flared again. The government’s October offensive on the Red Sea coast is another front. It is not Ataq’s tally. Nor the house in Saada on Sunday, ten dead in Houthi reporting. Another place. Another day.

Dump BBC. The rewrite rests on the BBC and on Anadolu, from SABA.

Image: the museum in Ataq, a palace reconstruction, 13 June 2020, Breton jean-francois, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The museum, not al-Alam camp.

Sources consulted: Death toll from Houthi attack in Yemen’s Shabwa rises to 73, with 14 missing — Anadolu.