- Title: Yemen university bomb kills gardener, injures two students
- Date: 24th May 2016
- Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (MAY 24, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SECURITY OFFICERS, STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES AT SANAA UNIVERSITY WALKING IN THE UNIVERSITY'S COURTYARD SIGN READING (In Arabic): "UNIVERSITY OF SANAA, SCIENCE DEPARTMENT" MAN STANDING AT SITE OF EXPLOSION MAN'S SHOE, GARDENING TOOL AND BLOOD ON THE GROUND MEN INSPECTING THE SITE OF THE EXPLOSION PIECES OF SHRAPNEL FROM THE EXPLOSION IN MAN'S HAND POLICE VEHICLES (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EYE WITNESS, BILAL QAYED, SAYING: "We heard the sound of an explosion and we saw the gardener wounded in the leg. Some girls were wounded, one in the back and the other in the head and they took them to the hospital. A third wounded girl was covered and carried away we didn't see what happened to her." VARIOUS OF ARMED HOUTHI MEN AT THE UNIVERSITY / SECURITY AND STUDENTS
- Embargoed: 8th June 2016 11:55
- Keywords: Explosion university Yemen Sanaa Houthis rebels
- Location: SANAA, LIBYA
- City: SANAA, LIBYA
- Country: Yemen
- Reuters ID: LVA0014J637T3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:A bomb at Sanaa University killed a gardener and wounded at least two students on Tuesday (May 24), police and medical sources said, in a relatively rare attack on the Houthi-ruled Yemeni capital.
A police official at the scene said the explosion appeared to have targeted an exhibition organised by the Houthi's Ansarullah group, which controls most of northern Yemen.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
A witness said that at least three female students were wounded in the attack.
"We heard the sound of an explosion and we saw the gardener wounded in the leg. Some girls were wounded, one in the back and the other in the head and they took them to the hospital," said eye witness Bilal Qayed adding a third wounded girl was "covered and carried away" but had no further details on her condition.
Islamist militants have exploited Yemen's 14-month civil war which has pitted the Iran-allied Houthis against supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is backed by a Saudi Arab coalition, to strike at both sides at will.
The warring parties, pushed by the common threat posed by the emboldened Islamist militants, have been trying to resolve their differences at U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait.
Despite the conflict, there have been relatively few recent attacks in Sanaa. Islamic State said it carried out an attack on a mosque in Sanaa last October that killed seven people.
Officials at the main hospital in Sanaa said the gardener, who they did not name, died of injuries sustained in the explosion. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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