In the attack in Aden, the men were gathered at a staging area near two schools and a mosque when a pickup truck suddenly accelerated through the building’s gate as a food delivery arrived, exploding amid the crowd, witnesses said.
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A spokesperson for the group said at least 60 other wounded people had been brought into a hospital run by the charity in Aden.
They could not immediately verify if all those killed were army recruits.
ISIS forces have often targeted security and government installations in Aden, the capital of the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator said in a press conference in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday that the toll was based on official records provided by medical facilities in Yemen.
The agency, affiliated with the IS, claimed that the attack conducted by a jihadist fighter killed about 60 new recruits. The hospital attack prompted MSF to pull their staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen.
A bomb attack targeting forces loyal to Yemen’s resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, has killed dozens of recruits and injured scores of others.
The Arab coalition battling Iran-backed rebels in Yemen has also been providing troops with air cover throughout their war against the militants.
The United States has meanwhile carried out numerous drone strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in Yemen.
Officials from the security forces revealed the attacker drove a auto bomb into a group of recruits, who were preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to fight in Yemen’s northern border area.
The assault killed at least 71 people and wounded 98, medical sources tell AFP.
On the flipside, the government and rebels have reacted well to a new Gulf-backed plan to end the civil unrest.
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On Sunday, Yemen’s exiled government said it would give an “initial welcoming” to more peace talks with the rebels with a view to forming a unity government.
