Over 60 wounded were being taken to three area hospitals, they added. The Saudis hope to train up to 5,000 fighters and deploy them to the Saudi cities of Najran and Jizan, near the border, Yemeni security officials said.
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The port city, the temporary base of Yemen´s Saudi-backed government, has seen a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces.
The Aden-based security source said that a suicide bomber slammed his explosives-laden auto into a gathering of army recruits near a school in Aden’s Mansourah neighborhood. Yemeni authorities have trained hundreds of soldiers in Aden over the past two months to as part of operations to retake neighbouring southern provinces from jihadists.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it resembled previous suicide bombings which Islamic State said it carried out in the city.
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A security source said the attack targeted a school compound where conscripts of the Popular Committees, forces allied to the internationally recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were gathered for breakfast. The coalition intervened in Yemen in March past year and has helped government troops push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces.
