Aden: Seven people were killed and 11 wounded on Sunday during Eid prayers after a gunman opened fire on a mosque in Southern Yemen, a Defence Ministry official said.
Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber, believed to be associated with an al Qaeda-linked group, blew himself up in the southern Abyan province, killing three and wounding two.
The official said that the mosque shooter appeared not to be related to Islamist militants.
The suicide bombing took place in the town of Mudiya in Abyan, the provincial official said.
“One of the dead was a local pro-army militia commander, Nasser Ali Mansur,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
The US has been pouring aid into Yemen to stem the threat of attacks from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and to try to prevent any spillover of violence into neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter.
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