Bombing Kills At Least 30 outside Yemen Military Camp
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 soldiers, Yemeni officials said.
The officials told The Associated Press that preliminary investigations showed the blast was the work of a bomber wearing an explosive vest. At least 50 people were injured in the attack that took place as soldiers lined up to collect their salaries, they said. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The camp where the explosion took place is the same military base that was struck by another suicide bomber on Dec. 10, killing 57 soldiers.
No group has claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack. However, Daesh group's Yemeni affiliate claimed responsibility for the Dec. 10 bombing. In addition to Daesh, Yemen is the longtime home to an active branch of al-Qaeda, widely regarded as the most dangerous affiliate of the international terrorist group.
Aden is controlled by a loose coalition of troops loyal to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, local militias and terrorist groups. They are battling Houthis, who seized Yemen's capital, Sana’a, in 2014. Houthis say their rise to power is a revolution against corrupt officials beholden to Saudi Arabia and the West.
Their advances forced Hadi to flee the country and seek shelter in neighboring Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-led coalition, mostly consisting of Persian Gulf Arab states, subsequently intervened in Yemen, launching a punishing air campaign against Houthis and their allies.
