Five people were injured in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday after a man lobbed a hand grenade into a military bus, eyewitnesses said. The attack occurred around midday in the Hail commercial district of the city. Three Iraqi experts who teach at the air defense academy were among the five military personnel wounded in the attack, said a Yemeni official requesting anonymity.Witnesses said the assailant was driving a pick-up vehicle when he hurled the grenade at the bus carrying air force officers and soldiers. He managed to flee the scene. The wounded were taken to the military hospital in Sanaa. Some had serious injuries, the witnesses and medical sources said. Police sources said they believed the attacker might be one of the supporters of the outlawed "Believing Youth" militant group, whose followers fought army forces in northern Yemen for two weeks last month.
Yesterday's incident was the latest in a series of attacks on military vehicles in Sanaa. In a similar attack on April 9, an assailant threw hand grenade into a military car, injuring two men and badly damaging the vehicle. On April 25, a passer-by was killed and several others injured when an assailant hurled a hand grenade at troops in the city. Police officials have linked the first two attacks to the Believing Youth group.