Sanaa: At least 25 people including Elite Republican Guards were killed on Saturday in a car bomb blast outside the gate of a presidential compound in a southern Yemeni city of Mukalla.
According to foreign media reports the blast occurred hours after the country’s new president was formally inaugurated and vowed to fight al Qaida.
A security official said it was a suicide blast, and that it bore the hallmarks of an operation by the militant group. He did not provide a death toll. Both al Qaida and southern separatists are active in the region.
The blast came as Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi took oath as president to replace 33-year dictatorship of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, following an election aimed at ending more than a year of political chaos.
In his speech before parliament, Mr Hadi swore to keep up Yemen’s fight against al Qaida-linked militants, who took advantage of the country’s upheaval to seize control of several parts of the country.
He also pledged to work to bring home the thousands of internal refugees created by fighting between government troops, southern separatists, mutinous military units, tribal movements, and numerous other factions.
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