A suicide bombing Monday at a military compound in Aden, Yemen, killed at least 60 people, hospital officials said.
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A security official says the attacker drove a vehicle into a gathering of new recruits.
The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator says a “minimum” of 10,000 people have been killed and wounded in Yemen’s conflict.
Dozens of people have been killed in a suicide attack on an army training camp in Yemen’s second city of Aden.
Once there, they would have been prepared to fight Shiite Houthi rebels in the north, near the border with Saudi Arabia.
Yemen is the site of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Iranian media are the first to report on Houthi claims coming out of Yemen.
But on Jul 20, four policemen were killed in a bombing attack in Aden that was claimed by IS.
Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a house in the northern Yemeni city of Saada in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 16 civilians, Yemen’s rebel-controlled state news agency reported.
The militants are still present in areas surrounding the recaptured towns and control large parts of the neighboring Shabwa province, the sources say.
Isis’ Amaq news agency said, “About 60 dead in a martyrdom operation by a fighter from Islamic State targeting a recruitment centre in Aden city”, without giving more details.
Sixteen people, mostly women and children, also lost their lives and a number of others were wounded when Saudi warplanes pounded houses in the Sahan district of Yemen’s northwestern mountainous province of Sa’ada.
United Nations -led peace talks earlier in August held in Kuwait were suspended with no signs of a solution concerning the civil war.
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The Arab coalition has also stepped up air raids in Yemen since peace talks collapsed. Since the fighting intensified in March 2015, missile and rocket attacks across Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia, which is leading a US -backed coalition against the Houthis, have been common. Initial statistics from the national airline indicate that thousands of people can not leave while many others remain stranded outside of Yemen, facing financial hardship and administrative hurdles due to expired visas.
