ADEN: A pair of suicide bombings killed at least 45 people in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday, security officials said. Medics said the blast injured 60 other.
The Daesh group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a written statement posted to its social media accounts, the militant group said the attack targeted “the apostate Yemeni army” and named the attacker as Abu Ali Al-Adeni.
Brig. Gen. Nasser Al-Sarei, commander of special security forces, said the first suicide bomb attacked killed at least 34 people queueing up to enlist at a recruitment center near the Badr base in the Khormaksar district.
A second explosion went off inside the base afterwards, killing seven soldiers, he said.
Aden is the headquarters of the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi as it battles Shiite rebels who control the capital and has seen a spate of attacks in recent months claimed by Al-Qaeda or its jihadist rival the Daesh group.
Government forces drove Houthi rebels out of the city in July with support from a Saudi-led coalition.
The two jihadist groups exploited the power vacuum created by the conflict to expand their presence in the south and southeast.
But over the past two months, government and coalition forces have hit back, driving the jihadists out of Aden, as well as the Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla, which they had controlled for a year.
The Daesh group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a written statement posted to its social media accounts, the militant group said the attack targeted “the apostate Yemeni army” and named the attacker as Abu Ali Al-Adeni.
Brig. Gen. Nasser Al-Sarei, commander of special security forces, said the first suicide bomb attacked killed at least 34 people queueing up to enlist at a recruitment center near the Badr base in the Khormaksar district.
A second explosion went off inside the base afterwards, killing seven soldiers, he said.
Aden is the headquarters of the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi as it battles Shiite rebels who control the capital and has seen a spate of attacks in recent months claimed by Al-Qaeda or its jihadist rival the Daesh group.
Government forces drove Houthi rebels out of the city in July with support from a Saudi-led coalition.
The two jihadist groups exploited the power vacuum created by the conflict to expand their presence in the south and southeast.
But over the past two months, government and coalition forces have hit back, driving the jihadists out of Aden, as well as the Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla, which they had controlled for a year.
