According to several reports, at least 50 people have been killed in two suicide bombings in Yemen which occurred in the capital, Sana'a and the other at the outskirts of the southern city of Mukalla. The violence attacks have troubled the Western and Gulf Arab nations because the instability in Yemen could strengthen the al-Qaeda forces.
Yemen has been struck by lethal violence last Oct. 9 when two separate bombings have occurred hours after a political crisis forced the resignation of its new prime minister. The attacks have killed at least 50 people. According to Reuters, four of the killed victims were children, in which a photojournalist working for AFP described seeing their bodies during the bloodshed. Health officials also reported that at least 75 people were also wounded by the blasts. The explosions have been planned to cause a big loss of life and were the deadliest attacks that have happened since May 2012.
The bombings in Yemen arise amidst the deepening political disaster sparked by the seizure of Sana'a by the rebels last month. The rebels have overruled the president's candidate to lead the new administration which is meant to be formed as part of a treaty that brought a conclusion to the deadly combat between the Houthis and the government forces.
BBC News reported that the first bomb attack struck as hundreds of people were arriving in Tahrir Square for a Houthis-called protest. Officials said that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in central Sana'a on the morning of Oct. 9, which targeted the gathering of supporters of the rebel Shiite Houthi movement that recently besieged the city.
Meanwhile, the separate attack took place on an army checkpoint at the outskirts of the port city of Mukalla, an eastern province of Hadramawt. The suicide bomber knocked his car against a security outpost. It killed at least 20 soldiers.
No terrorist group has assumed responsibility behind the Oct. 9 bombings in Yemen; however, both take the trademarks of previous attacks by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, which has sworn to fight the Houthis in defense of Sunnis.
On Oct. 8, the authorities have accused the AQAP of responsibility for the simultaneous attacks on security and government offices in the southern town of Bayda that left at least nine people dead on.
U.S. Ambassador Matthew Tueller condemned the bombings in Yemen and urged the people to implement the power-sharing agreement, which aims to resolve a decade-long Houthi rebellion and pull the nation out of the catastrophe hastened by the 2011 revolt that forced veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign.
"The Yemeni people have lived with senseless violence for far too long and the recent increase in hostilities against innocent civilians only undermines the progress Yemen has made since the 2011 revolution," the U.S. embassy stated through a statement posted on its Web site. "Yemen's challenges are political and therefore must be resolved through political solutions."
After decades of autocracy, the Arab countries have supported a U.N.-backed political shift since 2012 that meant to direct Yemen's stability. However, the Oct. 9 bombings have troubled the Western and Gulf Arab nations again for the fear that its instability could further strengthen the al-Qaeda forces.
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