[Pak Daily Times] A car boom destroyed a Shia rebel convoy in north Yemen on Friday, killing two people including a suspected attacker in the second such attack this week, a rebel front man said. The blast, which also injured eight people, struck a string of cars in the rebel stronghold of Saada as they headed to a funeral for the spiritual leader of the Houthi rebel movement, named after their leaders' clan. Badr al-Din al-Houthi died of natural causes on Thursday.
One of those killed on Friday was a Houthi follower while the other is believed to have been an attacker, the Houthi front man said, although it could not be confirmed that the blast was a suicide kaboom. On Wednesday, a car boom killed about 23 Houthi followers at a religious gathering in the northern Jawf province.
The government condemned Wednesday's attack and said it would try to find out who was responsible. The Houthis, who belong to the Zaidi sect of Shia Islam, complain of social, religious and economic discrimination and have long fought the Yemeni government.