Saturday, March 26, 2016

Triple suicide bombings rock Yemen’s Aden

A triple suicide bombing on an Arab coalition military camp in southern Yemen killed 22 people Friday, including civilians, witnesses and medical officials said.

An ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for the attacks in a short statement carrying the name of the group's news agency, Amaq.

The first suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint, meters away from the camp in the al-Hasswa district of the city of Aden. A spokesman for Aden's security services, Nizar Anwar said that 18 people were killed in the first attack, including civilians. A second bomber drove an ambulance and rammed his vehicle into the rescuers. Four people were killed in this assault, Anwar said.

The third suicide car bomber then detonated his explosives close to the camp as civilians were waiting for roads to reopen, witnesses said. However Anwar said that a coalition jet attacked the car and killed the bomber.

Medical officials said that the death toll is expected to rise and that there were women and children among the victims, but did not give numbers for civilian casualties...
 [The Associated Press - alarabiya.net]
  25/3/16

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