Blast, gunfire hit US Embassy in Yemen.

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Not in Latest Breaking because there is no sourced story, just this "Breaking News" banner at MSNBC.com

Nothing yet at CNN.

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1. AP has it

Official: explosions, gunfire heard in vicinity of the US Embassy in Yemeni capital

By AHMED AL-HAJ | Associated Press Writer
3:21 AM EDT, September 17, 2008

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) _ Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard Wednesday morning near the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital and police swiftly cordoned off the area, according to a government security official.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, had no more details. An embassy employee contacted by telephone inside the mission's compound in the eastern sector of San'a would only say that "there has been a security incident."

Regional TV networks, however, were reporting a car bomb explosion outside the embassy and an exchange of gunfire between guards and unidentified assailants. A fire broke out in one of the embassy's buildings, they say. The reports, which could not be independently confirmed, made no mention of casualties.



http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-yemen-us-embassy,0,839819.story

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2. great...

just great...I hope our people are ok...

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3. witness tells CNN that he heard there are lots of casualties

live coverage on CNN channel.