No Script

Please Wait...

Al-Ahed Telegram

At Least 20 Dead as Car Bomb Hits Yemen Police Academy

At Least 20 Dead as Car Bomb Hits Yemen Police Academy
folder_openYemen access_time9 years ago
starAdd to favorites

Local Editor

At least 20 people were killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded outside a police academy in Yemen's capital Sanaa, officials said.

At Least 20 Dead as Car Bomb Hits Yemen Police AcademyThe attack struck as dozens of Yemenis queued to join the police academy in the center of the capital and also wounded at least 23 people, Sanaa governor Abdulqader Hilal told the official Saba news agency.

Ambulances rushed to take the wounded to hospital as security forces sealed off the area.

Body parts and debris from the vehicle used in the attack were strewn on the ground.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula [AQAP] has taken credit for previous such attacks on security forces.

Yemen has been dogged by instability since an uprising forced longtime strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh from power in 2012.

A suicide bomb attack on Huthi supporters in central Yemen last week martyred 49 civilians.

Four people including a reporter were killed Sunday in another blast targeting a gathering of Huthis in southwestern Yemen, while six rebels were wounded in a blast in Sanaa on Monday.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

Comments