Yemeni security officer injured in car-bomb attack in Aden

Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-11-3 16:06:33

A Yemeni security officer was seriously injured when a bomb exploded in his military vehicle in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday morning, a government official told Xinhua.

"An officer in charge of Aden International airport security survived an assassination attempt after a bomb attached to his military car exploded. He was seriously injured," the local government official said condition of anonymity.

Witnesses told Xinhua anonymously that "the security officer suffered some injuries to his leg, when an explosive device apparently planted in his car exploded in a main street in Aden's neighborhood of Khor Maksar."

The injured security officer was taken to a nearby military hospital for treatment.

No group had so far claimed responsibility for the bomb attack.

The Yemeni government authorities routinely blame militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot for a series of assassination attacks, mostly in the country's southern regions.

The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which emerged in January 2009, is considered the most strategic threat to the Yemeni government and neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia.



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