Yemen’s government has said it will stay in the country’s temporary capital Aden despite a deadly attack on its headquarters which lightly wounded several ministers.
After a meeting late on Tuesday, the Cabinet acknowledged that the attacks earlier in the day had been car bombings as claimed by Daesh and not rocket attacks by Iran-backed rebels as initially reported by government officials.
Two bombs targeted the government’s temporary headquarters in Aden’s Al-Qasr Hotel, lightly wounding several ministers although Prime Minister Khaled Bahah escaped unharmed.
Two guards were killed. Two more bombs hit military installations used by coalition troops, who have been battling the Houthi rebels since March in support of the legitimate Yemeni government.
Daesh claimed the attacks and published the names and photographs of the four suicide bombers it said had carried them out.
It was the first time that the terrorist group had claimed attacks on government and coalition targets.
A new suicide bombing outside a mosque in the rebel-held capital Sanaa killed seven people on Tuesday evening. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The coalition said that one Saudi and three Emirati soldiers were among the dead in Aden. Bahah and his ministers only returned to the southern port city on Sept. 16.
Agencies
