SANAA: An attack on Huthi rebel leaders in Yemen´s capital claimed by the Islamic State group has killed at least 28 people, medics said Tuesday, in the latest assault.
Yemen was previously the preserve of IS’s jihadist rival Al-Qaeda, which controls swathes of the south and east, but since March the group has claimed a string of high-profile attacks.
The car bomb
By AFP
June 30, 2015
SANAA: An attack on Huthi rebel leaders in Yemen´s capital claimed by the Islamic State group has killed at least 28 people, medics said Tuesday, in the latest assault.
Yemen was previously the preserve of IS’s jihadist rival Al-Qaeda, which controls swathes of the south and east, but since March the group has claimed a string of high-profile attacks.
The car bomb late Monday targeted two brothers, both rebel chiefs, during a gathering to mourn the death of a relative, a security source said.
Eight women were among the dead.
The explosion blew a crater in the road, took chunks out of nearby walls and left debris strewn across the street.
IS said in an online statement it had organised the attack.
Just Friday, a Saudi IS suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 227 in a Shia mosque in Kuwait.
In Yemen, IS claimed a car bombing that killed two people outside a Shia mosque in Sanaa on June 20 and a series of attacks in the capital four days earlier that killed 31.
