ADEN: Three senior southern Yemeni officials survived a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in Aden and a subsequent gun battle that killed three of their guards on Tuesday, a government spokesman and security sources said.
The incident highlights the security chaos in the port city, the temporary seat of Yemen’s embattled government, as its loyalists seek to wrest the capital Sanaa from the Iran-allied Houthi movement with support from a Saudi-led coalition.
“A suicide bomber in a car detonated as the convoy of the governors of Aden and Lahj provinces along with the Aden security director passed through the area of Inma,” Nizar Anwar, a government spokesman said.
Three soldiers were killed in the exchange of fire which followed the attack, sources said, before the assailants retreated into the surrounding desert.
Aidaroos Al-Zubairi was appointed governor of Aden after his predecessor was killed in a car bomb attack on Dec. 6 claimed by Daesh, the latest attack by the new Yemen branch of the militant group against government targets.
Daesh has stepped up operations since the outbreak of civil war in Yemen, emerging as a forceful rival to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the main militant group in the country in recent years.
Security officials have launched a crackdown on suspected militants, imposing a curfew and arresting at least 70 suspects overnight, sources said.
The incident highlights the security chaos in the port city, the temporary seat of Yemen’s embattled government, as its loyalists seek to wrest the capital Sanaa from the Iran-allied Houthi movement with support from a Saudi-led coalition.
“A suicide bomber in a car detonated as the convoy of the governors of Aden and Lahj provinces along with the Aden security director passed through the area of Inma,” Nizar Anwar, a government spokesman said.
Three soldiers were killed in the exchange of fire which followed the attack, sources said, before the assailants retreated into the surrounding desert.
Aidaroos Al-Zubairi was appointed governor of Aden after his predecessor was killed in a car bomb attack on Dec. 6 claimed by Daesh, the latest attack by the new Yemen branch of the militant group against government targets.
Daesh has stepped up operations since the outbreak of civil war in Yemen, emerging as a forceful rival to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the main militant group in the country in recent years.
Security officials have launched a crackdown on suspected militants, imposing a curfew and arresting at least 70 suspects overnight, sources said.
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