Al-Qaeda announces accountability of killing dozens of Yemen soldiers

By Mohammed  al-Kibsi
Over 25 troopers and an elderly woman were killed and dozen others were wounded when a suicide bomber driving a Tia car broke into the main gate of the Republican Palace in Mukalla city in the south east of Yemen on Saturday afternoon, a security and local sources said.
The governor of Hadramout Khalid Said al-Daini affirmed that a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle  at the soldiers at the gate of the Republican Palace at Fooh area killing at least 20 soldiers while were having their lunch>
Al-Dini said that the investigations are carried on to uncover the identity of the suicide bomber, adding that the car used in the bombing was turned into pieces scattered in the area of Fooh.

Meanwhile a spokesperson of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula told Reuter news agency that their organization was accountable of the blast adding that the attack was in response to the crimes committed by the Yemeni Republican Guards.  
The attack occurred on the same day Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi the new president of Yemen sworn in front of the Yemeni parliament as the new elected president.
Hadi in his speech on the eve of the election’s day vowed that fighting and eradicating al-Qaeda was a priority.