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At least five people were killed and eleven others injured in a car bomb attack on a convoy of government officials in Yemen. Yemeni security circles said on Sunday that the convoy had included the governor of Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, and the agriculture minister Salem al-Socotri. According to information from the media, both survived the attack. Prime Minister Main Abdulmalek Said spoke of a terrorist attack and called for an investigation.
According to information from security circles, the car bomb detonated in Aden's Al-Mualla Street as the convoy drove by.
Initially, no one confessed to the attack, which was the deadliest in Aden since December 2020.
At that time, attackers killed at least 26 people at the city's airport, including three employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Aden is the second largest city in Yemen.
Since its expulsion from the capital Sanaa by the Houthi rebels supported by Iran, the country's internationally recognized government has had its provisional seat there.
The South Yemeni separatist movement STC, which is allied with Said's government in the fight against the Houthi rebels, also comes from Aden.
At the end of last year, parts of the STC were integrated into the Yemeni cabinet as part of a fragile power-sharing agreement.
Both Aden's Governor Lamlas and Agriculture Minister al-Socotri belong to the STC.
In Yemen, war has been raging since 2015 between the troops of President Abd Rabbo Mansur Hadi, which are supported by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, and the Houthi rebels, which Iran is behind.
Tens of thousands of people were killed and millions of people had to flee.
There is currently fierce fighting between the Houthi rebels and government forces over Marib.
The oil-rich city is the last in the north of the country to be under government control.
Observers fear that the Houthis could launch an offensive in the south of the country after a possible capture of Marib.
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