The car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, killing at least 12 people.
At least six people were killed today in a car bomb attack in southern Yemen against a convoy of government officials who survived this new attack in the war-torn country.
According to sources of the security services, the governor of ‘Aden Ahmed Lamlas, Agriculture Minister Salem al-Socotra and a third officer whose identity has not been clarified at present , aboard the convoy that was heading to’ Aden.
The country’s second-largest city, Aden, is the provisional seat of the Yemeni government, which has been fighting the Houthis since 2014, the rebels who have occupied much of the north, as well as the capital, Sanaa.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a police recruiting center , killing at least six people and wounding ten others, according to a recent report by security sources. An earlier report had put the death toll at five.
A car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. They all survived the “terrorist attack and assassination attempt”, the official Saba news agency reported.
The governor’s press secretary and his photographer, the head of his security team and a fourth comrade, as well as a passing citizen , were killed in the attack , a local government source said. A blanket-covered corpse was on the road next to a charred vehicle in al-Tawahi district. Firefighters and police were deployed in the area.
The governor and the minister of agriculture are both members of the Transitional Council of the South (separatists, STC), which participates in the internationally recognized unity government along with supporters of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. This government is based in Aden.
The south of the country was an independent state until the reunification of Yemen in 1990. However, there is still strong resentment in the former South Yemen against Yemenis from the north, who are accused of forcing the unification of the country by force.
Several anti-government attacks have been attributed to the Houthi rebels in recent years. Jihadist groups claimed responsibility for other attacks.
Following the attack, Prime Minister Maine Abdulmalik Saeed called for an investigation, denouncing a “cowardly terrorist” attack, according to Saba.
