26 Mar 2016

Suicide blasts kill 22, injure dozens in Yemen

2:41 pm on 26 March 2016

Three suicide bomb attacks on security checkpoints in the southern Yemeni city of Aden have killed at least 22 people.

Eyewitnesses said dozens of people, including women and children, were wounded.

In one of the blasts, an ambulance filled with explosives was detonated as it arrived at a military checkpoint, killing civilians and soldiers.

The Islamic State group said it carried out the attacks.