Doctors without Borders tweeted to have received 45 dead bodies and about 60 wounded patients.
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Soldiers gather at the site of an attack by a suicide bomber who drove a vehicle laden with explosives into a compound run by local militias in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen August 29, 2016. After some training, the new force will deploy to the Saudi cities of Najran and Jizan, near the border with Yemen, the officials said.
The assault killed at least 71 people and wounded 98, medical sources told AFP.
The ISIS through its Amaq News Agency, described the attack as a “martyrdom operation” and said it killed “around 60 people”. And in May, twin suicide bombings in Aden claimed by IS killed at least 41 people.
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi condemned the “cowardly terrorist act”.
A Saudi-led coalition of nine countries began launching airstrikes against Houthi-controlled areas, including the Yemeni capital, in March 2015.
The fighters are still present in areas surrounding the recaptured towns and control large parts of the neighbouring Shabwa province, the sources say.
The attack came amid a fresh push to end Yemen’s 17-month-old war between Saudi-backed government and rebels that the United Nations says has left 6,600 people dead. It was used by the Popular Resistance, a local force that had helped drive Iran-allied Houthis out of the city a year ago. The report says most of the victims were from three families, and children were among those killed.
On 6 August, the UNs Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced a one-month break in the Yemeni peace talks, during which the focus will be on working with each side separately to crystalize precise technical details.
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For 17 months, Yemen has been the scene of a civil war between a government recognized by the global community and supported by an worldwide coalition led by the Saudis and Shiite rebels known as Houthis and army units loyal to a former president. Some 3 million people have been displaced inside the country, the Arab world’s poorest.
