Yemen: Nearly 80 dead in Sanaa in a triple suicide bombing against two mosques

A triple suicide bombing against two mosques in Sanaa killed nearly 80 people, the bloodiest attacks since the fall of the capital of Yemen by a powerful Shiite militia end of January. More than 120 people were injured in the attacks.

The country suffers a crisis fueled by the Houthi Shiite militia and Sunni jihadists of Al Qaeda, two groups hostile to the regime of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. And if these new attacks in Sanaa have not been claimed in the immediate future, the technique of suicide bombing reminds the procedure of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), sworn enemy of the Houthis and implanted in the south and south-east.

During the weekly noon prayer, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Badr mosque in southern Sanaa, followed by another at the entrance to the same place of worship when the faithful were fleeing, according to witnesses. A third suicide bomber attacked a mosque in the north of the capital. The attacks have produced almost the same time.

"The attacks were 77 martyrs and 121 wounded," said AFP Nashwan al-Atab, an official of the Ministry of Health, reviewing the record on the rise.

The Houthis pray in mosques and among the dead include the imam of the mosque and Badr major religious leader of the militia, Al-bin Zayd al-Mourtada Muhatwa, according to a medical source.

Outside mosques, bodies lay in pools of blood, while the faithful carried the injured in pickup to hospitals.

AFP