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Suicide bombing attacks on Yemeni security soldiers: 50 killed | Several suicide bombers blew themselves up among security soldiers who were practising for a military parade in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Monday, killing some 50
people, police officials said. Police officials told Xinhua that at least 50 soldiers
were killed after a number of suicide bombers targeted the soldiers in al-Sabeen
square, a few meters northwest of the presidential palace. The parade was scheduled
for Tuesday to mark Yemen 's 22nd anniversary of reunification. Officials said
the suicide bombers wearing security uniform blew themselves up among the soldiers
when they marched through al- Sabeen square. They said the attack bore the hallmark
of the al- Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen 's resurgent terrorist off-shoot.
The explosion occurred when Yemen 's defense minister and chief of staff of the
army arrived at the square, however, they survived the suicide bombing. The injured
have been taken to nearby hospitals for treatment, according to the police. Witnesses
said human remains were scattered across the explosion site and policemen have
cordoned off the scene. According to sources from the defense ministry, the ministry
received intelligence last week that unidentified militants were planning to carry
out suicide car bombing attack in Sanaa. Monday's attack is most deadly one since
President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi took over power in February. He pledged that
large- scale attacks will continue to strike al-Qaida bastions "until we have
eradicated their presence in every village." It also comes 10 days into a massive
army offensive against Al- Qaeda in Yemen 's restive southern Abyan province,
where the jihadists have seized control of a string of towns and cities in attacks
launched since last May. With the support of the U.S. experts and drones, the
Yemeni government has launched an "all-out offensive" against al-Qaida militants
for nine days in the southern province of Abyan . The ongoing fighting has left
more than two hundred people from both sides killed, while thousands of civilians
have fled to neighboring provinces of Aden and Lahj.
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