Terrorist operation leaves civilian casualties in Marib

MARIB, May 24 (YPA) – At least 10 people were killed and injured on Sunday when an explosive device blast targeted a car of a citizens in Marib city, southeast Yemen.

Sources told Yemen Press Agency that five civilians were killed and five others injured as a result of detonating an explosive device while Thiab Ali Amer al-Muradi’s car was passing on the main road between Safer district and Bin Ma’li station.

Among the deaths are two Somalis and a citizen from Rayma province and among the wounded are a woman and a five-year-old child, the sources added.

The occupied city of Marib suffers from many terrorist operations, especially after elements of the so-called Al-Qaeda organization from Bayda, Abyan and Hadramout provinces flocked to the city to fight in ranks of Saudi-led coalition forces.

YPA