At least 40 people in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, have been killed by a suicide bomb attack on supporters of a Shia rebel group. The blast hit as hundreds of people were arriving in Tahrir Square for a protest called by the Houthis.A policeman who witnessed the attack said a man wearing an explosive belt had approached a Houthi checkpoint at the entrance to Tahrir Square. "He then exploded amid the security and ordinary people nearby," he said.
Later, a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in the eastern province of Hadramawt killed 20 soldiers. A tank and two army vehicles were destroyed when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car outside the city of Mukalla.