Suicide bomber kills at least 49 people in a military camp in Aden

A suicide bomber kills at least 49 people and wounded another 60 in a blast near a military camp in the southern Yemen city of Aden. The dead were soldiers who had assembled to collect their salaries. There were several medics were among the wounded.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack and has confirmed that it was behind a suicide bombing at the same base on 10 December in which at least 45 soldiers were killed and another 50 injured.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 18 December 2016.

Aden continues to be under the control of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his internationally recognized government in exile in Saudi Arabia. They are fighting the Shia rebels who took over Sanaa, the capital, in 2014 and have since occupied much of the north of the country. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia has joined the fight against the rebels in 2015 but has not been able to remove them from Sanaa.
Britain is helping the Saudis to select targets which will ensure that the country complies with the rules of war. Moreover, the UK is a major exporter of arms to Saudi Arabia and has assured that the sales would continue since there was no evidence of weapons being used in contravention of international law.
Coalition airstrikes have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians as the population struggles against starvation and disease.


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