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Governor Ahmed Lamlas and Minister of Agriculture Salem al-Suqatri survived a car bomb that killed at least six people.
On Sunday, a car bomb targeting the governor’s convoy shook the port city of Aden in southern Yemen, killing at least six people.
According to the National News Agency, a member of a separatist organization in southern Yemen, Ahmed Ramlas and Minister of Agriculture Salim Sukatri survived a “terrorist assassination attempt.”
Information Minister Moammar al-Iryani said that the explosion caused 6 deaths among Lamlas’s companions and at least 7 other passers-by were injured.
Local government sources said that the governor’s press secretary and his photographer, the head of his security department, a fourth companion, and a civilian bystander were killed in the attack.
In the al-Tawahi district where the STC headquarters is located, a corpse covered with a blanket lies on the street next to a charred vehicle. Firefighters and police have been deployed to the area.
Ramras is the secretary-general of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist organization that competes with the Saudi-backed government for control of Aden and southern Yemen.
Al-Suqatri is also a member of the STC supported by the United Arab Emirates, which has always had internal strife.
An STC military spokesperson said earlier that at least five people were injured, including three civilians, one of whom was a child.
Under the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, the government and STC are nominal allies, and the coalition has been fighting the Houthi movement allied with Iran. The instability in the South complicates the peace efforts led by the United Nations.
In March 2015, a few months after the Houthi armed forces withdrew the internationally recognized government from the capital Sana’a, the military alliance intervened in Yemen.
The government is stationed in the south, while the Houthis control most of the north.
Yemen is also home to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which regularly attacks fighters allied with the country’s authorities.
In the conflict in Yemen, tens of thousands of people, mainly civilians, lost their lives and millions of people were displaced. This conflict is called the world’s worst humanitarian disaster by the United Nations.
Police and firefighters work at the site of the explosion in Aden, Yemen [Fawaz Salman/Reuters]
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