Local Editor

Several car bomb blasts targeted three mosques as well as the political office of the Houthi Ansarullah movement in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a, killing at least 31 people on Wednesday.

Car bombs targeted the three mosques in Sana’a, Al-Masirah TV reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the bomb blasts targeted the Alkebsi Mosque, the al-Qubbat al-Khazra Mosque near the Hayel region, and the Hashoosh Mosque in Sana’a.

Dozens of others have reportedly been injured.

A car bomb also exploded near the political office of the Ansarullah movement in the al-Jaraf neighborhood.

The house of Saleh al-Samad, the head of Ansarullah’s political council, was also reportedly targeted in a bombing.

Another car bomb went off in front of the house of Taha Al-Mutawakel, a member of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, in the Hay al-Jaraf region in Sana’a, a security official was quoted by local media outlets as saying.

The so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] Takfiri extremist group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, saying that they have been carried out in "revenge" against the Houthi Ansarullah revolutionaries.

Such extremist groups as "Daesh" and the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula enjoy the financial and ideological support of the Saudi regime.

This is while Saudi Arabia is also pushing ahead with its US-led military aggression against Yemen. 

The United Nations [UN] says that over 2,600 people have been killed and 11,000 others injured due to the conflict in Yemen since March 19.

The Saudi regime began its US-led aggression against Yemen on March 26, with an aim to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring back to power Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.