Three injured in car bomb explosion in Yemen's Aden

Three people were severely injured when a car exploded in Yemen’s Al Mualla area in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday.

The incident took place on the Madram street near the Mualla Plaza hotel.

A security source told The National that two passengers, a man and his son, were in the moving vehicle when it exploded. He did not elaborate further.

According to witnesses, the victims sustained serious injuries and burns. The authorities have not yet identified them.

“The street was very calm with usual flow of traffic, when a white Sonata suddenly blew up and a loud explosion was heard,” a witness, who resides in the area, told The National.

“The blast was so strong that the car flew up in the air and landed in another spot.

“We rushed to the vehicle to find two severely injured people. One was impossible to identify as his whole body was burnt,



and the younger passenger was missing both legs.”

An Aden security source said that preliminary investigations show that a bomb was planted in the car and detonated via remote control.

The incident comes just days after armed men killed a senior intelligence officer in Aden.

Col Nasser Makrij, who was the chief intelligence officer at Aden airport, was gunned down by men on a motorcycle as he walked on a street near his home in the city.

Aden became the internationally recognised government’s de facto capital after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of Sanaa in 2015.

On Sunday, Aden police chief Brig Shallal Ali Shaiya met with Interior Minister Ahmed Al Maysari to discuss a new security plan.

The two men agreed to dispatch additional security patrols in Aden and along the city’s entrances and to further develop the police force and stations.