9 Feared Dead At Yemen Hospital Bomb Attack

A bomb attack on a hospital in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan has claimed the lives of at least nine people.
The deadly attack took place in Mikras region on Friday, the Lebanese Arabic-language news network al-Mayadeen reported.

Most of the victims are said to be members of the Ansarullah movement, who are fighting al-Qaeda and ISIL terrorists inside Yemen.

The terrorists have carried out bombings and attacked several civilian targets in recent months
On June 17, five simultaneous bombings targeted the political office of the Houthi Ansarullah movement as well as three mosques in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, killing at least 31 people.
The ISIL Takfiri militant group claimed responsibility for the deadly bombings, saying they have been carried out as “revenge” against the Ansarullah fighters.

The attacks come as Saudi Arabia is also pushing ahead with a military onslaught against its impoverished southern neighbor with the declared objective of targeting the Ansarullah movement. The military campaign, however, has left a heavy civilian death toll.

Nearly two dozen Yemeni civilians have lost their lives in Saudi aerial attacks in the northwestern Sa’ada Province over the past several hours.


At least nine civilians were killed as Saudi warplanes bombarded residential buildings in the Bani Moein district of Ghamr region of the province. Separately, 13 civilians lost their lives, when Saudi warplanes struck the Ghomam region in the Razih district of the same province.


A senior Ansarullah official recently told a Press TV correspondent that  Saudi Arabia is committing genocide in Yemen and using banned weapons in its ongoing military aggression against Yemen.


“We have images of complete genocide being committed against the Yemeni people, we have practice of genocide against our people,” Hamza al-Houthi, the head of the Ansarullah delegation in the Geneva consultations, told Press TV's correspondent in Geneva on Thursday. 


In a report published on May 31, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that evidence shows the Riyadh regime has been pounding Yemen with internationally banned cluster bombs, warning that such attacks are “harming civilians.”

The House of Saud started the military campaign against Yemen in late March – without a UN mandate – in an attempt to weaken the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Riyadh seeks to bring Yemen's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Al Saud regime, back to power.