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| Yemen arrests 5 suspects in police academy bombing |
| 2015-01-10 |
[ARABNEWS] Yemeni security forces have juggedPlease don't kill me! five suspected Al-Qaeda members accused of carrying out a car kaboom on a police academy that killed 40 people, the Sanaa police chief said Friday. Gen. Abdel Razaq Al-Moayed, quoted by the official Saba news agency, said the five members of an Al-Qaeda cell were tossed into the calaboose and that a sixth suspect, the owner of the vehicle used in Wednesdays attack, was being sought by authorities. The official said the first suspect was arrested Wednesday at the scene of the attack and had provided the names of the other four cell members. The vehicle owner was identified by the registration documents, Moayed added. The bombing targeted dozens of potential recruits lined up to register at the academy in the centre of the Yemeni capital, killing 40 and maimed 71 others. Yemens top security body blamed Al-Qaeda for the blast. But a leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Sheikh Saleh Abdel Ilah al-Dahab, denied any involvement by the bully boy group in Wednesdays attack. Al-Qaeda has nothing to do with the incident, he wrote on Twitter, accusing the Huthi militia that overran Sanaa in September of being behind the bombing. |
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