Five roadside bombs have gone off in the Yemeni capital Sana�a, leaving eight members of the Houthi movement Ansarullah wounded.
According to the Yemeni Ministry of Defense, the bombs targeted Houthi fighters� checkpoints and some houses early on Monday while two other devices were dismantled.

The injured were taken to hospital and three of them are said to be in a critical condition.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but the attacks bear the hallmarks of a branch of the al-Qaeda militant group in Yemen.

The militants on December 3 claimed a car bomb attack on the residence of the Iranian ambassador to the Arab country in a statement published on their Twitter account.

Al-Qaeda militants frequently carry out bomb attacks in Yemen and have been locked in deadly battles with Ansarullah fighters.

AL-Qaeda-linked violence against Yemeni security forces has also been growing since February 2012, when President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi came to power in a one-man election backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Yemen�s central government has so far failed to confront the terrorist threat. Shia Ansarullah fighters, however, have intervened to fill the vacuum and have driven al-Qaeda militants out of many areas in the country.

Meanwhile, in a separate development on Monday, media reports said that Yemeni President Hadi has sacked his armed forces chief of staff.

No reason was given for his sacking Ahmed Ali al-Ashouel on Sunday who was replaced by General Hussein Naji Hadi Khairan.

By Press TV

 

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