A suicide bomber in Aden, Yemen, attacked an army school camp with a vehicle loaded with explosives on 29 August, killed at least 54 people and wounded at least 60 people.
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The Houthis and forces allied to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized Sanaa in September 2014, forcing the internationally recognized government to flee the country.
At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations on Tuesday, nearly double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016. They could not immediately verify whether all those who died were recruits.
The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said earlier on its Twitter account that its hospital in Aden received 45 dead and at least 60 wounded from the morning explosion.
Later on Monday, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, in Kerbala, Iraq, five ISIS militants attacked a wedding celebration late Sunday night, firing machine guns and throwing hand grenades, with one of the assailants reportedly blowing himself up.
Claiming the attack, ISIS stated that “60 people were killed in a militia recruitment center” in what was one of the deadliest massacres perpetrated to date by the terror group in Yemen.
The blast occurred in the Yemeni port city of Aden.
Troops retook other towns across Abyan but have been met by fierce resistance in the key Al-Qaeda stronghold of Al-Mahfid, security sources said.
The coalition assembled by Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen in March a year ago and has helped government troops push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces.
The districts of Nihm and Sanhan in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa were also hit in Saudi air raids.
On 17 August, alarmed by escalating airstrikes and ground fighting in Yemen and along the shared border with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the suspension of the talks, the Secretary-General repeated his call on all the parties to the conflict to immediately cease all hostilities.
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More than 6,500 people have been killed, over half of them civilians, since the Saudi-led coalition began its assault on Yemen in March 2015.
