Yemen

Car bomb attack kills 31 in Yemen’s Rada’

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At least 31 people, including 20 children, have been killed in a car bomb attack in central Yemen.

According to Yemeni security and medical sources on Tuesday, the bomb attack targeted the home of a leader of the Houthi Ansarullah fighters in the town of Rada’ in Yemen’s central province of al-Bayda.

The children were killed after their school bus was caught up in the attack.

Local security sources accused al-Qaeda militants of being behind the attack.

The Ansarullah fighters have not commented on the attack yet.

At least six Ansarullah fighters belonging to the Shia Houthi movement were killed at a checkpoint of the movement in al-Bayda on Friday.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorists claimed on the same day that they had killed as many as 70 Ansarullah fighters in several attacks in the strategic town of Rada’.

The Ansarullah fighters, who have the support of allied tribesmen, were reported in November to have been in full control of the strategic town.

The town had been under the control of al-Qaeda militants since early 2012.

Over the past months, al-Qaeda militants have frequently carried out attacks on Yemen’s security forces and have been also locked in deadly battles with Ansarullah fighters.

Yemen’s central government has so far failed to confront the terrorist threat. Ansarullah fighters, however, have intervened to fill the vacuum and have driven al-Qaeda militants out of many areas in the country.

The Shia revolutionaries also played a major role in the ouster of Yemen’s former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in 2012.

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