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At least two people have been killed in an explosion near Sana’a University in Yemen.
An improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday in Yemen’s largest city, also injuring at least two people, a sources said.
A security official said the blast happened during an event commemorating the country’s 1990 unification, adding that the death toll was expected to rise.
Yemenis were commemorating the May 22, 1990, unification of Yemen after centuries of separation between the north and the south, where British colonial rule was followed by a Soviet-backed communist government.
There was no immediate claim for Tuesday’s bombing but both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) group have carried out past bombings against the Houthis, whose faith they regard as heretical.
Suicide bombings claimed by ISIS in March year killed 120 worshippers at mosques.
Tuesday’s blast followed a day of heavy bloodshed in the Arabian Peninsula country: a double bomb attack on would-be army recruits killed at least 45 people in the southern city of Aden.
Monday’s attacks were claimed by the local affiliate of ISIS.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
