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Arabia
ISIS claims bomb attack in Aden that killed 49
2016-12-19
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah killed at least 49 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials there said, which the ISIS group's Yemen-based affiliate grabbed credit for.

The officials said the soldiers were queuing to collect salaries near a military base in the Khor Maksar district when the attacker went kaboom!.

Abdel-Nasr al-Wali, a Health Ministry official based in Aden, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that 84 people were maimed in the blast.

The attacker immersed himself among the soldiers at al-Solban base, in al-Arish district, a military official said.

The ISIS affliate grabbed credit for the attack in a statement posted on ISIS-run Aamaq news agency. It identified the bomber as Abu Hashim al-Radfani and published a photo of him smiling and wearing a white vest as he stood next to the group's black flag. It also posted photos it said were of the blast that killed nearly 70. It was not possible to immediately verify the claim.

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