Yemeni journalist killed in car blast in Aden

ADEN, June 16 (Reuters) – A Yemeni journalist was killed in a auto explosion in Aden late on Wednesday, law enforcement mentioned, in the most up-to-date incident of violence in Yemen’s southern port town.

Preliminary investigations indicated that an explosive device experienced been planted on the car pushed by Saber al-Haidari, in accordance to a police assertion revealed by the southern armed forces in Aden.

The statement did not specify which media outlet Haidari, 40, worked for.

Firefighters doused the charred wreckage of the auto on a main street in Aden, which has observed an enhance in violence in recent months.

A motor vehicle bombing in March killed a senior Yemeni army leader and 3 of his entourage in what authorities described as an attack by “terrorist features”.

Previous November, a expecting Yemeni journalist was killed in a motor vehicle explosion. Her husband, also a journalist, was wounded. browse extra

Yemen has been mired in a 7-calendar year conflict in between a Saudi Arabian-led military services coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi motion that mainly retains North Yemen.

Amid Yemen’s several destabilising forces are Islamist military teams like Al Qaeda and Islamic Condition that have, in the earlier, carried out assaults, like in the south.

Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari and Reyam Mokhashef
Editing by Bernadette Baum

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