Death toll of Aden car bomb attack rises to 8

ADEN, Jun. 30 (YPA) -The death toll from the car bomb attack that targeted Saleh al-Sayyed, the Lahj province’s head of Security, who is loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), has risen to eight Medical sources reported on Wednesday.

According to the medical sources, ten others were injured, including civilians in the bombing , which took place on a busy road near an educational institute in Khor Maksar district.

The families of a number of victims of the bombing revealed that their relatives were shot dead by live bullets, not by the explosion.

Activist Abu Elias al-Kazmi accused Saleh al-Sayyed of killing civilians following the blast.

“Our sons, who were killed in the bombing, were shot dead by live bullets, not by fragments of the explosion ,” al-Kazmi said.

The soldiers, who were so frightened during the bombing, fired hysterically and indiscriminately at passers-by after the explosion and that among the dead were passengers on a transport bus near the explosion, as well as a restaurant worker and others who were in their cars.

Al-Kazmi said his cousin Mohammed Awad al-Saidi was killed during the blast in Aden.

E.M