YEMEN - EXPLOSION
Deadly blast rocks Yemeni town
Saturday 05 July 2008
An explosion near the post office in the northern Yemeni town of Saada killed at least five people, according to a local official. The cause of the blast, in a region plagued by a Shia insurgency, is not known.
Saturday 05 July 2008
By AFPAt least five people were killed on Saturday in an explosion in central Saada, a town in northwest Yemen at the heart of a Shiite revolt, a witness said.
The witness, asking not to be named, said the blast near Saada's post office also left a number of people wounded. Rescue services evacuated the casualties as security forces sealed off the site.
Yemen's Saada province in mountains on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the heartland of an uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite rebels in 2004 in which thousands of people have died.
The two sides signed a Qatari-brokered peace deal in June last year but there has been repeated wrangling about its implementation.
The insurgents are known as Huthis after their late commander, Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi, who was killed by the army in September 2004. He was succeeded as field commander by his brother Abdul Malak.
