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Three, including child, killed in car bombing in Yemen's Bayda

Tuesday, 14 February 2017 7:18 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 18 February 2017 9:05 AM ]

People gather at the site of a car bomb explosion next to the central bank in Yemen's second city of Aden, October 29, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Three people, including a child, have been killed in a bomb attack in Yemen’s central province of Bayda.

According to Yemen's official Saba news agency, the bombing was carried out near a checkpoint in the center of the town of Rada' on Tuesday, when Yemeni soldiers fired at an advancing car, suspected of carrying explosives, to bar it from striking itself against a nearby sports and culture club.

The huge blast killed the assailant on the spot and claimed the lives of a fighter with the Houthi Ansarullah movement and a child. It also injured at least eight other people.

The explosives-laden car was heading to target the club, in which a ceremony was held in commemoration of martyrs from the Yemeni army and the Ansarullah movement.

The explosion also damaged a nearby school and shattered the windows of houses that were in the vicinity of the blast site.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was carried out in a province where Takfiri terrorists belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) are present.

Car bomb attacks are not uncommon in the war-torn Yemen, where the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and AQAP have gained footholds.

Yemenis search under the rubble of damaged houses following Saudi airstrikes on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, February 1, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Yemen has also been severely bombarded by warplanes belonging to its northern neighbor Saudi Arabia, which launched a full-scale war against the country in March 2015. The campaign has killed at least 11,400 Yemenis, according to the latest tallies.

The regime in Riyadh mounted its unsuccessful campaign to bring back to power Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and undermine the Houthis.

The Saudi war has taken a heavy toll on the country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories.

Last Friday, three United Nations agencies announced that the number of food-insecure people in Yemen had risen by three million during the past seven months, reaching an estimated 17.1 million and exceeding two-thirds of the entire population of 27.4 million.

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