Suicide bombers have struck a mosque in Yemen’s capital in an attack
targeting Shia worshippers that killed at least 25 people and wounded
dozens, medics and witnesses said.
Aljazeera reports:
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Sanaa
has been shaken by a string of bombings by the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) group in recent months targeting Shia Muslims.
Thursday’s blast ripped through the Balili mosque where Houthi Shia
rebels who control Sanaa go to pray, according to witnesses.
It came as worshippers marked Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the
Sacrifice, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar.
Witnesses reported that after a first blast inside the mosque, a second
suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at the entrance as
worshippers rushed outside. ISIL, a Sunni Muslim group which controls
swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, considers Shias to be heretics.
ISIL bomb attacks targeting several Shia mosques in Sanaa on March 21
killed 142 people. The group has also claimed attacks on mosques in
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The capital of Sunni-majority Yemen has been
under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels for the past year.
The Houthis have also expanded their grip to other parts of the country.
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