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At least two civilians were killed and four others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a public square in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Saturday, a security official said.
The source said the suicide assailant detonated his explosive belt amid civilians who gathered near a cinema in Aden’s neighborhood of Crater, leaving two people dead and four others injured at the scene.
On Thursday, ISIS claimed responsibility for assassinating a police officer by attaching an improvised explosive device to the underside of his car.
Yemen, an impoverished Arab country, has been gripped by one of the most active regional Al-Qaida insurgencies in the Middle East.
The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), also known locally as Ansar Al Sharia, emerged in January 2009. It had claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks on Yemen’s army and government institutions.
It took advantage of the current security vacuum resulted from 19 months of civil war and the internal military conflict to expand its influence and seize more territories in Yemen’s southern part.
The security situation in Yemen has severely deteriorated since March 2015, when Saudi Arabia began its deadly campaign. The strikes were meant to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
About 10,000 people have been killed and over 16,000 injured since Riyadh launched the airstrikes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
