Creativity and destruction in war-torn Yemen (#YemenCrisis )

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Yemeni artists create a mural of the national flag after a devastating explosion in the capital - to mixed reactions from the city's residents


The flag is made of shards of glass that have been left uncollected on Sanaa's streets since a huge blast on Tuesday (Courtesy of Nina Aqlan) -

Mary Atkinson
Friday 24 April 2015
Last update:
Saturday 25 April 2015

Yemenis in the capital Sanaa are still picking up the pieces from a huge explosion that ripped through the city on Tuesday, as a duo of artists try to make sense of the destruction through creativity.

At least 40 people were killed and dozens more injured when an airstrike targeted an underground weapons depot in a mountain just outside Sanaa, sending shockwaves through the city.

Windows were shattered in houses up to two kilometres away – amateur footage of the explosion, taken from a residential building in Sanaa, shows shards of broken glass raining down from all directions in the aftermath of the blast.

When the dust settled after the explosion - the largest to hit Sanaa since a Saudi-led coalition launhed a bombing campaign against Yemen's Houthi militants last month - a pair of young artists decided to harness the disaster into something creative. -

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