Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A car bomb exploded Saturday in Yemen's Ansarullah-held capital Sanaa, not far from the vacated US embassy complex and close to a position of the popular committees insurgents, witnesses said.
The blast occurred near a mosque in Sawan neighbourhood, in northeastern Sanaa, close to a checkpoint leading to the US Embassy, witnesses said.
The target of the attack was unclear.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The American embassy was vacated after Ansarullah as well as tribal forces seized Yemen's capital in September last year. Only Yemeni guards remain around the complex.
The Salafi extremist ISIS group has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.
Ansarulah fighters as well as popular committees have seized several regions of Yemen. But pro-fugitive president Mansur Hadi thugs aided by Saudi-led air raids, have recently managed to wrest back some southern provinces, including Yemen's second city of Aden.
Saudi Arabia launched its attacks against Yemen on March 26 – without a UN mandate – to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Over 4,300 people have lost their lives in the conflict since late March, according to the World Health Organization. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.
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