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At least 14 dead in attack on Yemen counter-terrorism base (UPDATED)

Arab World Materials 25 February 2018 00:50 (UTC +04:00)

00:50 (GMT+4) At least 14 people were killed and 40 wounded when Islamist car suicide bombers and gunmen tried to storm the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, security and medical sources said, Reuters reported.

Islamic State, in a statement carried by its Amaq news agency, claimed responsibility for what it described as two “martyrdom operations” targeting the camp in Tawahi district in south-western Aden.

The agency provided no immediate evidence for the claim.

Security sources said two suicide bombers detonated two cars laden with explosives at the camp’s entrance while six gunmen tried to storm the facility.

They were all killed by guards and their bodies taken to a military hospital, a medical source told Reuters.

Aden police said in a statement on its Facebook page that security forces had foiled a major attack on the camp.

“All the ... terrorists were liquidated immediately before they could reach the outer gate of the anti-terrorism headquarters,” a police statement said.

Security sources and medics said three security men, a woman and two children died in the attack, while 40 other people, many of them civilians, were wounded.

21:35 (GMT+4) The two blasts reportedly ripped through the southern Yemeni city on Saturday, hitting the area near an anti-terrorism camp, Sputnik reported.

Five people have been killed in the explosions, security officials confirmed on Friday. Jumhouriya hospital officials earlier said that dozens of people were either killed or wounded in the explosions. They said that five bodies – mostly troops – had been transported to the medical institution along with a number of wounded people, including civilians.

An Al Arabiya correspondent in the city reported that most of those killed were civilians.

Al Arabiya also reported that a car bomb detonated on a highway near the entrance to an anti-terrorist camp that is located in the Al-Tawahi district in the south of the city.

The terrorist group Daesh has claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to Reuters.

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