News in brief

By The Associated Press

Boeing 737 catches fire, skids off the runway at Senegal airport

DAKAR, Senegal | Senegal’s transport minister says a Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people caught fire and skidded off a runway at an airport near the country’s capital, Dakar, and that 10 people were injured.

The minister says the Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was headed to Bamako, in neighboring Mali, late on Wednesday with 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew. The injured were being treated at a hospital.

A Malian musician says he “saw my life flash before my eyes” and that he thought about his mother, wife and kids. He also described “complete panic during the evacuation” out of the plane.

Houthi rebels claim two attacks; Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats

JERUSALEM | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage.

Meanwhile, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader threatened that Tehran could build a nuclear weapon if it chose to pursue atomic armaments.

The comments Thursday by Yemeni military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree and former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi come as the allies of Hamas continue to pressure Israel over its continuing war on the militant group in the Gaza Strip.

Saree claimed attacks on the MSC Diego and MSC Gina. Kharrazim meanwhile reportedly told Al Jazeera that Tehran was ready to change its nuclear doctrine if its existence was threatened.

—From AP reports