Top south Yemeni officials survive car bomb explosion

Aden - One security guard killed, eight injured as bomb-laden vehicle target their convoy in Aden.

Three senior south Yemeni officials survived a car bombing that targeted their convoy in the port city of Aden on Tuesday and killed one of their guards, security sources said.
Eight other guards were wounded when the bomb-laden vehicle exploded in the Inmaa district, the sources said.
Medics confirmed the toll.
Newly appointed Aden Governor Aidarus Al Zubaidi, city police chief General Shallal Ali Shayae and the governor of neighbouring Lahj province, Naser Al Khubaji, were travelling in the convoy.
They were returning from a visit to a camp of Emirati troops taking part in the Saudi-led coalition that has been battling Iran-backed rebels in Yemen since March, the sources said.
The assassination attempt comes after Yemeni security forces arrested a local Al Qaeda leader during a sweep targeting militants in the southern city, security officials said.
Shayae vowed late on Monday that authorities will "cleanse all (of Aden's) neighbourhoods from terrorists".
Aidarus was appointed in December after his predecessor, Jaafar Saad, was killed in an Aden bombing claimed by the Daesh group.
Aden, the government's temporary capital, has seen a growing militant presence, with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, long active in Yemen, and Daesh apparently vying for influence.

• MENA