Islamic State bombing kills 54 government recruits in Yemen

Isis’ Amaq news agency said, “About 60 dead in a martyrdom operation by a fighter from Islamic State targeting a recruitment centre in Aden city”, without giving more details.

At least 54 people have been killed and more wounded after a suicide bomber drove a auto bomb into a militia compound in the southern port city of Aden on Monday.

The official said that after the attack on Monday at least 60 other people had been taken to a nearby hospital run by the medical charity in Aden’s Mansoura district.

A suicide vehicle bomb killed more than fifty people Monday in Yemen and Islamic State has taken credit of it.

On Sunday, high-ranking pro-government officials confirmed to Xinhua that they are planning to recruit and train more than 5,000 young fighters from the government-controlled southern provinces to join the fighting with the Saudi Border Guard Forces against Houthi rebels.

Although the complex was locked as recruits registered inside, the attacker drove in when the gate was opened for a delivery vehicle, officials said.

Extremist Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, have taken advantage of the fighting to gain territory and launch attacks on both sides.

No group has claimed that attack.

And in May, twin suicide bombings in Aden claimed by IS killed at least 41 people.

Earlier this month, Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition entered Abyan’s provincial capital Zinjibar.

Troops retook other towns across Abyan but have been met by fierce resistance in the key al-Qaeda stronghold of Al-Mahfid, security sources said.

Residents fled when the blast rocked the area and debris was sent flying, one witness said.

The Arab coalition battling the rebels and their allies in Yemen has also been providing troops with air cover throughout their war against the Jihadists.

It was used by the Popular Resistance, a local force that had helped drive Iranian-allied Houthis out of the city previous year.

The United Nations has said that as many as 9,000 people have died in the Yemeni civil war since violence escalated in March 2015, while another 3 million people have been displaced inside the country.

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