Gunmen assassinate Muslim clergyman in southern Yemen
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An injured Yemeni man is carried on a stretcher at a hospital following twin bombings in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on May 23, 2016. (© AFP)
Unidentified armed man have shot and martyred a Muslim clergyman in Yemen’s port city of Aden on a day which also featured fresh Saudi bombardments, leaving some people dead.
Local sources said gunmen, carrying firearms fitted with silencers, attacked Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Zuhri as he left al-Rahman Mosque after leading dawn prayers Saturday, the Huna Aden news website reported.
Sheikh Zuhri was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his gunshot wounds, it added.
In the capital Sana'a, a grenade exploded outside a mosque as worshipers were leaving after midday prayers.
There were no injuries or casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the explosion under a parked car by the Bilal mosque in western Sana'a.
Takfiri terrorists have exploited Saudi attacks on Yemen over the past 16 months to strike at various targets and wreak havoc.
Ansarullah has controlled Sana'a since 2014 when former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi stepped down and fled to Aden before taking refuge in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia launched a ferocious military campaign then to restore Hadi to power and crush the Ansarullah movement.
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