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Sanaa (AFP / Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in Sanaa city's worst floods in a decade which hit Yemen's capital, officials said Thursday.

Witnesses said the water flowing from nearby mountains Wednesday evening after a heavy rain, struck the region east of Sanaa settlements that have no drainage system causing hundreds of houses inundated.

"Sudden floods hit houses," said Mohamed Jamil, a resident in the city was flooded.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh to review the areas that flooded the capital, said a defense ministry's newspaper.

Western countries worried about Yemen and Saudi Arabia which is fighting rebels in the north and Shiites in the south of the separatist group, may be a chaotic country where Al Qaeda groups could increase attacks in the region and beyond.

West was worried about the country's security after a branch of Al Qaeda based in Yemen claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack on passenger aircraft of the United States in December last goal.

In the capital city, where many roads digenangani water, rescue operations are being conducted and more than 250 people were evacuated from their homes and taken to shelters in schools. Rain is expected to come down again on Thursday but not profusely.

Seasonal floods have killed about 180 people in 2008 in two eastern provinces of the country, said UN agencies, and floods that killed at least 48 people in the south of Sanaa.

Of the seven people killed, several people drowned and another died from electric poles collapsed overwritten. Two other people were injured and taken to the hospital.