ADEN : A suicide car bomb attack on an army training camp in Yemen\u2019s second city of Aden killed at least 60 people on Monday, medical sources said.
\nA security official told that the attacker drove his vehicle into a gathering of new recruits at the camp in northern Aden.
\nThe assault killed 60 people and wounded 29 others, medical sources from the three hospitals where the victims were taken told
\nSecurity officials had provided an earlier toll of 11 dead.
\nThe port city, the temporary base of Yemen\u2019s Gulf-backed government, has seen a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces.
\nAttacks in Aden are often claimed by militants from either Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State group, which have both taken advantage of the chaos in Yemen to make gains in southern and southeastern regions.
\nBut no group claimed immediate responsibility for Monday\u2019s attack.
\nYemeni authorities have trained hundreds of soldiers in Aden over the past two months to as part of operations to retake neighbouring southern provinces from militants.
\nEarlier this month, Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition entered Abyan\u2019s provincial capital Zinjibar.
\nTroops retook other towns across Abyan but have been met by fierce resistance in key Al-Qaeda stronghold, Al-Mahfid, a town which lies further east, security sources said.
\nThe militants are still present in areas surrounding the recaptured towns and control large parts of the neighbouring Shabwa province, the sources say.
\nThe Arab coalition which backs the Yemeni government against Iran-backed rebels has also been providing troops with air cover throughout their war against the militants.
\nThe coalition intervened in Yemen in March last year and has helped government troops push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces.
\nBut authorities have been struggling to secure these provinces.
\nMore than 6,600 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Yemen since March 2015 and more than 80 percent of the population has been left in need of humanitarian aid, according to the UN.
\nA training camp, or compound used by the pro-government Popular Resistance militia, was hit, reports say.
\nSo-called Islamic State said it carried out the attack.
\nIt comes amid a fresh push to end Yemen’s 17-month-old war between Saudi-backed government and rebels that the UN says has left 6,600 people dead.
\nSome 2.5 million Yemenis have also been displaced
\nIS’s self-styled news agency Amaq said the group had carried out Monday’s attack.
\nOther reports to news agencies from medical sources have put the death toll higher – between 45 and 60.
\nMeanwhile, the government and rebels have responded positively to a new Gulf-backed initiative to end the conflict.
\nThe plan, announced last week by the US, calls for the withdrawal of Shia Houthi rebels from the capital, Sanaa, and talks on forming a unity government.
\nThe rebels said they were prepared to restart negotiations, provided the Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and laying siege to territories held by them.
\nThe latest round of peace talks in Kuwait collapsed earlier this month.
\nThe Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes in Yemen since March 2015 in support of the internationally recognised government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
\nThe campaign began after the Houthi rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took over parts of the country, including Sanaa, forcing the government into exile.
\nThe government and its allies have since retaken Aden. Saudi Arabia says the Houthis are supported financially and militarily by its regional rival Iran – something Tehran denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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