Two car bombs rock Yemeni cities of Dhale and Mukalla

dimeji akinloye

July 18, 2016 7:05 AM

A second explosion rocked the port city of Mukalla, killing two soldiers, a security official and witnesses said.

A Somali police officer looks inside the wreckage of a car destroyed when Islamist militants opened fire on government officials in a car and then a car bomb exploded, according to police and a spokesman for Mogadishu's mayor, in Yaqshiid district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, April 18, 2016.

A car bomb exploded on Monday at a security checkpoint in Yemens Dhale, a city on the road to the port city of Aden, killing two soldiers and wounding one, witnesses told Reuters.

The blast in Mukalla came when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a military checkpoint at the western entrance of the city, they said.

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