Yemen Governor killed in Car Suicide Bombing Attack

Governor Jaafar Mohammed Saad (R)

At least seven including the governor of Yemen's Aden province, Jaafar Mohammed Saad were today killed when a suicide bomber rammed his car into the governor’s convoy while the governor was heading to work. Several others were also wounded in the attack.

Hadi returned to Aden from Saudi Arabia last month, nearly eight months after he fled to escape the Houthi advance. He has been trying to shore up security in the city and oversee fighting against the Houthis in the province of Taiz, north of Aden.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamist militants are operating in the city, four months after supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and a mainly Gulf Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia drove Iran-allied Houthi fighters from Aden, Yemen's second largest city.

Saad, a former general in the army of the former southern Yemen before the Marxist state merged with northern Yemen in 1990, was appointed governor in October.