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Car bomb explodes in Yemeni province of al-Bayda

Friday, 03 July 2015 5:40 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 03 July 2015 8:49 PM ]

The wreckage of a car is seen at the site of a car bomb attack in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on June 29, 2015. (© AFP)

A car bomb has exploded in the southeastern Yemeni province of al-Bayda with reports saying that an unspecified number of people have been injured in the blast.

Local media reports said that the attack took place near a national security building in al-Bayda city on Friday evening.

Yemeni security sources said that the car bomb attack targeted Ansarullah fighters and allied army units.

The latest attack took place as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has already claimed eight attacks on the Houthi Ansarullah movement in a two-day period in Yemen’s Abyan, al-Bayda, Marib, and Shabwa governorates.

Also on Friday, nearly two dozen people, mostly civilians, lost their lives in the ongoing Saudi aerial attacks across the impoverished country.

Six civilians were killed in a dawn attack as Saudi warplanes bombed an area near the ministry of communications in the capital Sana’a. The attack also set the ministry on fire and destroyed some nearby buildings.

The deadly assault was followed by another Saudi aerial raid that targeted Faj Attan district, near Sana’a and home to a military base.

Saudi airstrikes also claimed the lives of at least three civilians in the western province of Hudaydah.

Another 13 people died after Saudi fighter jets bombed areas in the southern city of Aden.

The Riyadh regime keeps bombing Yemen in defiance of international calls for a humanitarian pause to allow aid into the country.

The UN says some 3,000 Yemenis have been killed, half of them civilians, and 14,000 others injured as a result of the ongoing conflict in the country in the past three months.

The UN further states that over a million people have fled their homes and 21 million need immediate help in the Arab country.

Saudi Arabia has been attacking different areas in Yemen since late March, without any authorization from the United Nations and heedless of international calls for the cessation of its deadly campaign against the Arabian Peninsula country.

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