Six soldiers were killed and 17 injured by a suicide car bombing of a military command centre in Abyan Province in southern Yemen on Friday.
Security sources said that the attack, which targeted the 111th Brigade in the district of Ahwar, “seriously wounded” the brigade’s commander.
A military source said the bomber used an armored vehicle.
Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
In September at least 20 people were killed when two car bombs exploded at a military camp in Shabwa in southern Yemen.
Last month a gun battle in Abyan province left two suspected members of Al Qa’eda in the Arabian Peninsula and a pro-Government militiaman dead, after a failed attack on the head of a militia that backs the government.
President Abdrabuh Hadi’s Government has been trying to rebuild Yemen in a national dialogue — amid a continued insurgency and demands for secession in the south — after the fall of the Saleh regime in February 2012.
