A suicide bombing killed seven people and wounded seven others in Aden on Friday night, the second deadly attack in as many days in Yemen’s second city, medics and security sources said.
The bombing targeted a police checkpoint not far from Thursday’s suicide attack that killed eight people, including soldiers and civilians, outside the presidential palace in the city, the sources said.
A hospital spokesman confirmed that seven people were killed in Friday’s bombing.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State extremist group said it was responsible for Thursday’s bombing.
Al-Qaeda and the rival Islamic State group both have a presence in Aden, where extremists occupy government buildings and are seen patrolling several districts and intimidating civilians.
They have claimed a string of attacks and assassinations in recent months.
Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was in the palace at the time of Thursday’s attack, but was unharmed, a government official said.
Aden has become the temporary headquarters of Hadi’s internationally recognized government as it battles to retake large parts of Yemen from Shiite Houthi rebels.
Hadi fled to Aden after escaping house arrest in the capital, Sana’a, which was overran by the Houthis in September 2014.
The rebels then moved south, forcing Hadi to flee in March last year to Riyadh.
However, Hadi loyalists backed by Saudi Arabian-led air strikes recaptured the port city of Aden, but they are still battling to retake other provinces and push toward the rebel-held capital.
The UN says more than 5,800 people have been killed in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, about half of them civilians, since the coalition air campaign was launched 10 months ago.
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