A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an Army battalion in Sana’a on Monday, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said.
The suicide attack was the deadliest in the country’s capital since newly-elected President Abdra-buh Mansur Hadi pledged to oust Al Qaeda militants from Yemen’s southern and eastern provinces.
Medics, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the casualties were being treated in seven hospitals across Sana’a. Yemen’s defence minister, Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, was present at the time of the explosion but escaped unharmed, the official added.
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CRICKETER LUKE SAYS HE WAS DRUNK
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, May 21
In a new turn in a mole-station case based on the allegation of Ameri-can woman Zohal Ham-id, the accused Austral-ian cricketer, Luke Pomersbach, confessed to the police that “he inadvertently touched the victim and was under the influence of alcohol”.
Meanwhile, cricketer K.P. Appanna recorded his statement with the police after his name came up in the probe.