49 killed in two attacks in Yemen's Aden: official

Tribal gunmen loyal to the Yemeni Huthi movement gather to show their support to the Shiite fighters against the Saudi-led intervention, in the Rahabah district, north of the capital Sanaa, on August 1, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

At least 49 people were killed Thursday in two separate attacks on police by Yemen rebels and a jihadist suicide bomber in the second city of Aden, a health ministry official said.

"Fourty-nine people were killed and 48 were wounded," Mohammed Rabid told reporters in Aden, the inernationally-recognised government's de facto capital.

He did not specify how many of those killed and wounded were civilians. The death toll has increased from 27.

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