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Yemen Storm Destroys Airport Facade, Several Wounded

A Yemeni motorcyclist drives through a flooded street following a heavy rainfall in Sana'a, Yemen, 01 August 2022. (EPA)
A Yemeni motorcyclist drives through a flooded street following a heavy rainfall in Sana'a, Yemen, 01 August 2022. (EPA)
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Yemen Storm Destroys Airport Facade, Several Wounded

A Yemeni motorcyclist drives through a flooded street following a heavy rainfall in Sana'a, Yemen, 01 August 2022. (EPA)
A Yemeni motorcyclist drives through a flooded street following a heavy rainfall in Sana'a, Yemen, 01 August 2022. (EPA)

A severe storm in southern Yemen blew through the glass facade of a key airport on Monday, wounding six passengers, damaging planes and forcing airlines to cancel two flights, officials said.

The incident at the airport in Aden coincided with torrential rainfall and heavy winds as the summer monsoon season exposes the climate-vulnerable country to flash floods and severe precipitation.

At least four children were among the six people wounded when a glass facade at an airport terminal collapsed due to the storm early Monday, said an airport official, AFP reported.

The storm also damaged two planes and destroyed some of the walls surrounding the Aden facility, airport director Abdul Raqeeb al-Omari told Yemen's Saba news agency.

Traffic returned to normal later on Monday, Saba said.

The University of Notre Dame's Global Adaptation Initiative ranks Yemen as one of the region's most climate-vulnerable countries.

In recent years, Yemen has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of summertime rainfall due to climate change acting on atmospheric circulation in the Indian Ocean.

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Barcelona Will Raise Tourist Tax for Cruise Passengers

FILE PHOTO: Tourists and residents drink on a street in Gracia neighborhood during a heatwave of the summer, in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Bruna Casas//File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tourists and residents drink on a street in Gracia neighborhood during a heatwave of the summer, in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Bruna Casas//File Photo
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Barcelona Will Raise Tourist Tax for Cruise Passengers

FILE PHOTO: Tourists and residents drink on a street in Gracia neighborhood during a heatwave of the summer, in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Bruna Casas//File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tourists and residents drink on a street in Gracia neighborhood during a heatwave of the summer, in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Bruna Casas//File Photo

Barcelona will raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting the city for less than 12 hours, the mayor said in an interview published on Sunday.
Jaume Collboni said the current tourist tax for stopover cruise passengers was 7 euros ($7.61) per day. He did not say by how much the tax would be increased, reported Reuters.
"We are going to propose..substantially increasing the tax for stopover cruise passengers," he told El Pais newspaper.
"In the case of stopover cruise passengers (less than 12 hours) there is intensive use of public space without any benefit for the city and a feeling of occupation and saturation. We want to have tourism that is respectful of the destination."
He said tourists, not local tax payers, should pay for local projects like air-conditioning schools.
The proposal will have to be agreed with the Catalan regional government, Collboni said.
In recent weeks, anti-tourism activists have staged protests in popular holiday destinations across Spain, such as Palma de Mallorca, Malaga and the Canary Islands, saying visitors drive up housing costs and lead to residents being unable to afford to live in city centers.
Another protest is planned in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the largest Balearic Island on Sunday evening.
Collboni announced last month that the city will bar apartment rentals to tourists by 2028, an unexpectedly drastic move as it seeks to rein in soaring housing costs and make the city liveable for residents.