Car bomb in capital hits mourners, 28 wounded -medics, residents

20:16 - 29 June 2015

"The explosion was caused by a car bomb which exploded behind the military hospital in the Sha'oub district in Sanaa, which injured 28 people including 12 women in a building where victims of a previous attack were being mourned," a medical source said.

A car bomb hit a group of mourners in the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, residents said, in an attack that medics said wounded around 28 people, some critically.

In a statement posted online, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast, the latest in a series of attacks by the hardline Sunni Muslim militant group against Yemen's dominant Houthis - a Shi'ite militia they regard as apostates.