Daesh* has claimed responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Yemen's Aden, local media reported.
Earlier on Friday, a suicide bomber crashed his bomb-laden motorbike into a vehicle of the Southern Transitional Council on a roundabout in the Sheikh Saad district in northern Aden, AFP reported, citing its source.
The military head of the UAE-backed Security Belt force survived the attack, the agency says.
Aden Security Belt commander Wadhah Omar survived assassination attempt today when his truck was attacked by unknown gunmen. #SouthYemen pic.twitter.com/dMO6vM8jXt
— Summer Ahmed (@samwrax) August 30, 2019
Three of those on board the vehicle were killed and some more were injured, including civilians near a busy marketplace, according to the report.
Led by the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), the Security Belt force seized control of Yemen's Aden on Thursday after clashes with government forces.
There is an ongoing conflict between Yemeni government troops and the STC who used to be allies in the fight against the Houthi movement. On Thursday, the Yemeni Defense Ministry said that the United Arab Emirates, accused by Yemen of supporting the southern separatists, had carried out airstrikes in the provinces of Aden and Abyan, leaving at least 300 casualties among servicemen and civilians, with government troops forced out of Aden and other nearby settlements that had recently been recaptured.
*Daesh (also known as IS/ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia.
