DUBAI: Suicide attackers set off two car bombs in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida yesterday, killing themselves and seven other people, sources in the Shia Muslim Houthi movement and medical officials said.
Three other suspected bombers were killed by members of a local security patrol before they were able to attack, the Houthi sources said.
“The bombs rocked the city. They were targeting a building that belonged to Houthi movement officials,” said a resident.
The Houthis sources said “takfiris”, a derogatory term for hardline Sunni Islamists who see Shias as infidels, were behind yesterday’s attack.
A Twitter account belonging to Yemen’s Ansar Al Sharia, a Sunni militant group affiliated to Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack.
A medical source in the city said that at least 15 people were wounded. REUTERS
