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Al-Qaeda Bombs in Yemen: 14 Houthis Martyred


Al-Qaeda Bombs in Yemen: 14 Houthis Martyred
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A suicide bomber linked to al-Qaeda drove a car laden with explosives into a hospital used as a base by Yemen's Houthi movement on Sunday, martyring at least 15 people, and five more martyred in an ambush in the south of the country.


Al-Qaeda Bombs in Yemen: 14 Houthis Martyred Militants, tribal and local sources said the first attack took place in the town of Majzar in Maarib province, east of the capital Sanaa, while local officials said the second occurred on Sunday night in the southern al-Bayda province.

Houthi fighters seized Sanaa on Sept. 21 after four days of fighting with soldiers loyal to the "Islah party".

"Dozens of dead and wounded from the rejectionist Houthis in a martyrdom operation by Ansar al-Sharia using a booby-trapped car in Maarib," the militant group, a branch of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said in a statement on its Twitter account.

The group said the target was al-Jafra hospital, which had been turned by the Houthis into a base for their operations in the area. Local tribesmen said at least 15 people were martyred in the attack and more than 50 were wounded.

In the second attack, local officials said al-Qaeda militants ambushed a car used by Houthi fighters, martyring five of them. An al-Qaeda statement put the martyrdom death toll in the attack at six.

Last week, they said they carried out a similar attack on the Houthis in their northern stronghold of Saada province, in which dozens were killed or wounded.

The two attacks came only one week after Houthis had taken control of the capital Sanaa.

Sanaa fell in the hands of the Houthis after almost three weeks of protests and confrontations with army troops and policemen.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team