Devastating Yemen attack kills about 90 military personnel

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SANAA (Reuters) - A man with explosives strapped under his army uniform killed more than 90 people in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday when he blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal, the defense ministry said.
The ministry also said 222 people were wounded in the attack.


A man claiming to speak for militant group Ansar al-Sharia said in a telephone call to Reuters it was behind the attack.
An Ansar al-Sharia spokesman subsequently confirmed the claim, saying it was in response to the "crimes" of the security forces who are fighting to dislodge militants from their strongholds in the south of the country.
The authenticity of the claim could not immediately be verified.
The attack is also sure to heighten concern in Washington, for whom Yemen is a frontline state in its global war on Islamic militants.
A U.S. military instructor was shot and seriously wounded on Sunday in an attack also claimed by Ansar al-Sharia, which is affiliated to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)


Source : AP