Yemenis look at the bodies of victims of a triple suicide attack targeting two Houthi mosques, at a hospital in Sana’a, the capital.(Photo: Yahya Arhab, epa)
At least 46 people were killed in Yemen's capital Sanna on Friday as suicide bombers targeted three mosques crowded with worshippers, the Associated Press reported. One hundred people were injured in the attacks.
The suicide bombers targeted mosques frequented by Shiite rebels, who have controlled the capital since September. The attacks took place during midday prayers, when the mosques would have been filled with worshippers.
A witness at one of the mosques, the al-Hashoosh mosque, said he was thrown seven feet away by the blast. "The heads, legs and arms of the dead people were scattered on the floor of the mosque," Mohammed al-Ansi told the AP.
Al-Ansi said many people were injured by glass falling from the mosque's windows.
On Thursday, the international airport in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden was forced to close, as forces loyal to Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, waged gunbattles with security forces loyal to the current president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. That incident left 13 people dead.
The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, seized the capital in September and now control at least nine of Yemen's 21 provinces.
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