Aden: Five bombs exploded on Tuesday in Sana’a’s old quarter, where many supporters of the Al Houthi movement live, killing a member of the group and wounding another person, a senior security official said.
One of the bombs was placed near the home of Esmail Al Wazir, a professor at Sana’a University, state news agency Saba quoted the director general of the Sana’a police, Brigadier General Abdul Razzaq Al Mu’ayad, as saying.
Al Wazir, who is close to the Al Houthi group, escaped an assassination attempt in April when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle, killing two of his security guards.
No one has claimed responsibility for the April attack or Tuesday’s bombings, but Al Houthis have been fighting the Islamist Al Qaida and allied tribesmen since its gunmen captured Sana’a in September and forced the resignation of a government they had long accused of corruption.
The blasts occurred early in the morning when only a few people were on the streets, witnesses said. One said he saw a man on a motorbike place the bomb outside his house and it exploded almost immediately.
Another bomb exploded when a member of the Popular Committees, a local force set up by Al Houthis after they captured Sana’a, was trying to dismantle it, police said.
Several houses and some cars were damaged from the explosions.
Yemen has been in turmoil since mass protests in 2011 forced long-ruling president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Tensions increased after the Al Houthi takeover of Sana’a in September.