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world NEWSWednesday 7 October 2015
Car bombers claimed by IS kill 15 in Yemen’s Aden
AHMED AL-HAJ extremists largely targeted Smoke rises following an explosion that hit Hotel al-Qasr where Cabinet members and other
JON GAMBRELL Shiites in Yemen as a myr- government officials are staying, in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.
Associated Press iad of forces fought over
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Sui- the ouster of internation- (AP Photo/Wael Qubady)
cide car bombings target- ally recognized President
ing exiled Yemeni officials Abed Rabbo Mansour coalition forces inside Ye- the attacks killed 15 peo- minister were safe and un-
and the Saudi and Emirati Hadi by the Shiite rebels men. Those assaults hit the ple, including allied Yeme- hurt. He blamed suicide
troops backing their ef- known as Houthis. palace of Sheikh Fareed ni forces. The general com- car bombers for the at-
forts to retake the country The early morning attack Al Awlaqi, which Emirati mand of the UAE’s armed tacks.
killed at least 15 people on the Al Qasr Hotel & Re- troops and the Emirati Red forces said the dead in- That conflicted with the of-
Tuesday in the port city of sort, a large compound Crescent had been using, cluded four Emirati soldiers, ficial Saudi Press Agency,
Aden, authorities said. A that Yemeni officials use as well as a nearby coali- though the Saudi Press which blamed incoming
new Islamic State affiliate as a headquarters, likely tion military camp, the Agency said three Emiratis Russian-designed Katyusha
claimed responsibility for changed that. A blast state-owned The National and one Saudi died. The rockets for the blasts. Those
the assault, which officials struck the front of the 239- newspaper of Abu Dhabi discrepancy could not be rockets are part of the Ye-
earlier blamed on Yemen’s room hotel along the Ara- reported. The United Arab reconciled. meni military stockpile that
Shiite rebels. bian Sea, west of the port Emirates’ official WAM Rajeh Badi, a spokesman the Houthis, as well as al-
The addition of the ex- city’s downtown, sending news agency quoted un- for Yemen’s exiled govern- Qaida’s local branch in
tremist Islamic State group, thick black smoke rising named “informed sources ment, said all government the country, have seized
which holds a third of Syria over it for hours as sirens and witnesses” as saying ministers and the prime amid the war’s chaos.q
and Iraq in its self-declared wailed.
“caliphate,” only would Two other attacks followed
add further chaos to the on locations used by troops
civil war gripping the Arab from the United Arab Emir-
world’s poorest country. ates, which has the most
Up until Tuesday, the Sunni overt presence among
Iraq: IS claims wave of attacks that killed 56
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Is- 32 people and wounding not immediately verify the
lamic State group claimed 58 others. It added that authenticity of the state-
responsibility on Tuesday militants also detonated ments, issued on different
for a series of attacks that a car bomb in Baghdad’s Twitter accounts, but its
rocked different parts of northeastern neighbor- language and phrasing
Iraq and killed at least 56 hood of Husseiniya that is consistent with past IS
people the night before. killed at least 14 people claims of responsibility.
The extremist group said a and wounded 25 others. IS controls large swaths of
suicide bomber blew up The group also claimed re- Iraq’s north and west, in-
his explosives-laden car sponsibility for an attack on cluding its second-largest
among Shiite militia mem- Shiites in Basra’s southwest city of Mosul and most of
bers in the Shiite-majority suburb of al-Zubair, killing Anbar province. It regularly
town of al-Khales in the at least 10 people. The targets Shiite neighbor-
country’s eastern Diyala Sunni-dominated al-Zubair hoods and government
province. Iraqi officials said is located 50 kilometers (31 installations in an effort to
the attack hit a commer- miles) southwest of Basra. destabilize the Shiite-led
cial area, killing at least The Associated Press could government in Baghdad.q
