 ADEN: Two Al-Qaeda terrorists militants died in southern Yemen yesterday when a bomb they were carrying on a motorbike went off prematurely near the headquarters of the paramilitary police, an official said.
| "Slow down Achmed! This road is really rough and the bomb could go––" |
The incident occurred in the Mansoura district of the southern port city of Aden close to a building where the Central Security Service is based.
“It blew up as it was getting near the building,” the security official told Reuters, adding that he thought the dead terrorists men were suicide bombers. He said one of the terrorists men had been identified, adding that the explosion did not damage the building and that nobody else was hurt in the blast.
The Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar Al-Shariah said in a statement it was behind the botched attack, saying its two terrorists fighters had been “martyred” after their device exploded by mistake.
“The terrorists mujahideen, may God infest them with boils bless them both, were on their way to carry out a jihadi operation against a target linked to the puppet Sanaa regime," the e-mailed statement said.
The group also rejected as “false and ridiculous” a government report that said military and security forces had killed more than 100 terrorists militants in the past few days. |