At least 60 dead in Yemeni suicide bombing, ISIS takes responsibility
RT.com
29 Aug, 2016
At least sixty people have been killed in a suicide bombing that targeted a southern Yemeni militia compound in the town of Aden, a spokesman for security services told AFP. The Islamic State terror group has taken responsibility for the attack.
Sky News Arabia reports that 71 people have been killed, citing local medics. At least 67 were wounded in the explosion, director general of Yemen’s health ministry in Aden, al-Khader Laswar said, as cited by Reuters. He put the death toll at 54.
A suicide bomber reportedly drove a car into a building being used by the Popular Resistance, a local militia supporting Sunni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is now in exile, witnesses told Reuters.
The explosion took place in front of “Sanafir” school in the Muammar Gaddafi neighborhood in the north of the city, which is named in honor of the former Libyan leader, AFP reported.
The terrorist act comes just a day after the Red Cross announced it would begin supplying Yemen with morgues to due to the growing death toll – something rare for the organization, which usually focuses on providing food, water, and healthcare.
The situation on the ground in Yemen has been dire for several years, and seven in 10 Yemenis are currently in need of emergency food aid, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network group.
The UN published a report last week saying that almost 3,800 civilians have been killed and over 6,500 injured in Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition began carrying out airstrikes there in March of 2015.
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