ISIS had claimed two deadly suicide bombings on Thursday and Friday outside and near the presidential palace in main southern city Aden. (Representational image)
Aden, Yemen:
An army officer has been wounded and three of his bodyguards killed after gunmen opened fire on his car in southern Yemen, a security source said today, blaming the ISIS group.
The attack late Saturday in the southern Lahj province follows a series of killings and bombings against government targets in Yemen's loyalist-controlled south, many of them claimed by ISIS.
General Hasan Salem Ahmed was "seriously wounded" in the attack near Huta, the capital of Lahj, security source said.
"The attackers are members of Daesh," the source added, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
ISIS had claimed two deadly suicide bombings on Thursday and Friday outside and near the presidential palace in main southern city Aden, adjacent to Lahj.
Pro-government forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition have since July recaptured Aden and Lahj as well as three other southern provinces from Iran-backed rebels who had seized control of large parts of Yemen including the capital Sanaa.
In another sign of insecurity in the south, the body of a Sunni Salafist cleric, Samhan al-Rawi, was found today in Aden's Khor Maksar district, a day after he was abducted, another security source said.
Rawi had fought with loyalist troops during battles to retake Aden, said the source, who was unable to provide further details of the incident.
More than 5,800 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition launched an air and ground war against the rebels in March, according to the UN.
The attack late Saturday in the southern Lahj province follows a series of killings and bombings against government targets in Yemen's loyalist-controlled south, many of them claimed by ISIS.
General Hasan Salem Ahmed was "seriously wounded" in the attack near Huta, the capital of Lahj, security source said.
"The attackers are members of Daesh," the source added, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
ISIS had claimed two deadly suicide bombings on Thursday and Friday outside and near the presidential palace in main southern city Aden, adjacent to Lahj.
Pro-government forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition have since July recaptured Aden and Lahj as well as three other southern provinces from Iran-backed rebels who had seized control of large parts of Yemen including the capital Sanaa.
In another sign of insecurity in the south, the body of a Sunni Salafist cleric, Samhan al-Rawi, was found today in Aden's Khor Maksar district, a day after he was abducted, another security source said.
Rawi had fought with loyalist troops during battles to retake Aden, said the source, who was unable to provide further details of the incident.
More than 5,800 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition launched an air and ground war against the rebels in March, according to the UN.
