[Al Arabiya] Twin kabooms rocked a sports centre in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday, killing one person and wounding at least eight people, security and medical officials said.The kabooms came within around 10 minutes of each other in a residential district of the city, which is to host part of the 20th Gulf Football Championship due to kick off next month.
Residents said the blasts were heard more than a kilometre (more than half a mile) away.
"Two bombs exploded... at al-Wahda club in Sheikh Othman," a security force official told AFP on condition of anonymity, referring to a busy district of the city.
"The first bomb exploded within the confines of the club, wounding two people. The second came 10 minutes later outside the club and injured seven people rushing to the scene of the first blast."
Two medical sources confirmed the number of casualties, adding that a 35-year-old man caught in the second blast later died. An AFP journalist reported that a child was among the maimed.
The attack was the second in as many days in Aden, where assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a police patrol on Sunday, a police official said, adding that one person was maimed.
The football competition involving Yemen, Iraq and six Gulf monarchies is to be held from November 22 to December 5 in Aden and neighboring Abyan province, which has seen an increasing number of attacks by the local arm of al-Qaeda.