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Unidentified armed men have shot and killed a Muslim clergyman in Yemen’s port city of Aden.
Local sources said gunmen, carrying firearms fitted with silencers, attacked Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Zuhri as he left al-Rahman Mosque after leading dawn prayers Saturday, the Huna Aden news website reported.
Sheikh Zuhri was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his gunshot wounds.
In the capital Sana’a, a grenade exploded outside a mosque as worshipers were leaving after Friday prayers.
There were no injuries or casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the explosion under a parked car by the Bilal mosque in western Sana’a.
Extremist militants have exploited Saudi attacks on Yemen over the past 16 months to strike at various targets and wreak havoc.
The Houthis have controlled Sana’a since 2014 when fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi stepped down and fled to Aden before taking refuge in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia launched a ferocious military campaign then to restore Hadi to power and crush the Houthi movement. More than 10,000 people have reportedly been killed in Saudi airstrikes.
Hadi loyalists and allies from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia control Aden and have pledged to win back control of the capital.
Daesh said it carried out an attack on a mosque in Sana’a last September that killed 10 worshipers.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
