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It’s the fifth vehicle bomb attack against the Shiite Houthi group since June in Sanaa by the ISIS.

Yemen’s “popular resistance” forces, which support president-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, said late Sunday that 47 civilians had been killed – and more than 140 injured – when the Shia Houthi militia shelled parts of the southern Aden province.

Yemeni ministers have arrived back in Aden after the government announced it had “liberated” the port city from rebel control, the interior ministry told AFP on Saturday.

Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV claimed the Houthis, who control Sanaa, have put their forces in the city on alert.

The developments mark the biggest military setback in over three months of fighting in the south for the Houthis, who control the capital Sana’a and much of northern Yemen.

Yemen’s exiled government had wanted the rebels to withdraw from the cities and towns they had overrun since September as a precondition to a truce, but it came under pressure to agree to a halt in violence immediately.

Saudi fighter jets pounded a police station in Al-Radhma district in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ibb after the truce came into force early Saturday, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are demanding that the Houthis pull back from territory seized in their offensive and that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi be restored to power.

The bombing targeted a pair of brothers, both chiefs in the Houthi forces, who were gathering to mourn a relative slain recently in the fighting.