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Yemen: 27-year-old journalist killed by explosive device while preparing to give birth

A 27-year-old journalist ready to give birth was killed on the way to her hospital Aden in Yemen, when it exploded improvised explosive device placed in her husband’s car, said government security forces and her husband, who was injured in the attack.

The mechanism that was installed in his car Mahmoud al-Atmi, also a journalist, was fired as the couple rushed to the hospital, where the young woman was about to give birth to their second child, explained a government security officer.

“The bomb exploded as journalist Mahmoud al-Atmi took his wife, Rasa Abdallah, to the hospital to give birth,” said the official, who asked not to be named. The two journalists worked for various local and international Arabic-language media. The couple had already had another child, two years old today.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack Aden, provisional seat of the transitional government. THE Mr. Atmi however, he believes it was the work of Shiite rebels Χούθι, who have been fighting against the internationally recognized government since 2014. “They were looking for my home address,” he said.

In Aden several bombings have been recorded which the authorities attribute to Χούθι and others for which the jihadist organization claimed responsibility Islamic state. On October 30, at least 12 civilians, including children, were killed in a car bomb attack near the airport. Aden.

THE Yemen has been plunged for more than seven years into a bloody armed conflict between government troops and Χούθι, Shiite insurgents who have occupied most of the northern part of the country, including the capital Sanaa.

After the occupation of the capital by them Χούθι, the government temporarily relocated its headquarters to Aden. The Χούθι are politically supported by Iran, while the government has been supported since March 2015 by a military alliance under its command Of Saudi Arabia, of the Sunni kingdom adjacent to Yemen and is her great rival Tehran in the area.

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