Car bomb kills Aden governor, 6 others
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THE governor of Aden was killed yesterday in a car bomb attack claimed by Islamic State in Yemen’s southern port city, where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has returned to oversee a war against Houthis.
Reports said that at least six members of General Jaafar Mohammed Saad’s entourage also died in the attack, which targeted the governor as he was headed to work. Several other people were wounded.
Islamic State said in a statement posted on a messaging service it uses that it detonated a car laden with explosives aimed at Saad’s convoy in Aden’s Tawahi district and promised more operations against “the heads of apostasy in Yemen.”
A local official and residents said earlier yesterday that a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into the governor’s car.
The group’s local branch has stepped up operations since the outbreak of civil war in Yemen, emerging as a forceful rival to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the main militant group in the country in recent years.
It has launched attacks on security bases and mosques run by Houthi forces who control the capital, Sanaa. The Houthis have been fighting a coalition of mainly Gulf Arab forces, which began airstrikes against them in March.
The attack came a day after assailants killed a senior army officer and a judge who had presided over the trial of militants suspected in the bombing of the United States warship “USS Cole” in Aden in 2000, in two attacks in the city.
Yesterday’s explosion could be heard about 10 kilometers away, witnesses said. Photos posted by local news websites showed a car in flames with a plume of smoke rising from it.
The victims were taken to the Jumhouriya Hospital, the main state medical facility in Aden.
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