AhlulBayt News Agency - A pair of suicide bombings carried out by ISIS militants killed at least 45 people in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday, security officials said.
They said the bombings targeted young men seeking to join the army.
One suicide car bomber targeted a line outside an army recruitment center, killing at least 20. A second bomber on foot detonated his explosive vest among a group of recruits waiting outside the home of an army commander, killing at least 25. Scores of others were wounded, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The local affiliate of the extremist ISIS group claimed responsibility for both attacks in a statement posted on social media networks by sympathizers. It said the bombing at the residence of the commander killed more than 30 and was carried out by a native of Aden it identified as Abu Ali al-Adani. It did not give casualty figures for the attack at the army recruitment center, which it said was carried out by an explosive device, not a suicide car bomb as the officials said.
There was no explanation immediately available for the discrepancy.
Many say al-Qaeda militants also enjoy support from Saudi Arabia as there have been numerous reports of airdrop by Saudi jets of ammunition to areas under the control of the militants, especially in areas where it could launch attacks against Houthi Ansarullah fighters.
The Houthis are still in control of much of Yemen despite more than a year of Saudi airstrikes and ground operations.
Numerous attempts by the United Nations for clinching a deal between Houthis and the pro-Hadi camp have failed.
Sources have put the death toll from the bloody aggression at more than 9,400.
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