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Twin blasts in Yemeni capital wound 20
[Al Ahram] Two roadside kabooms went kaboom!one after the other on a busy road in the Yemeni capital on Thursday wounding 20 people, the interior ministry said. The twin blasts were on Al-Rabat Street where the bombs had been hidden among piles of garbage. No casualties were reported in the first kaboom, a ministry front man said, quoted by Saba state news agency. But as pedestrians gathered in the area a second device went kaboom!, wounding 20 people, the official said. Another official told AFP earlier that 12 people were maimed in the blast, four of them seriously. Cars were damaged in the blast, and windows were also shattered, he said. Security forces then cordoned off and searched the area. Also on Wednesday, a jacket wallah killed an army intelligence officer in Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province in the south. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-27 |
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