Yemen suicide bomber attacks Houthi rebel field hospital
The Shia Houthi movement swept through Sana’a earlier this month, seizing territory in the Yemeni capital
Associated Press in Sana'a
The Guardian, Sunday 28 September 2014 13.17 EDT
A suicide car bomber drove into a field hospital run by Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday, killing one person and wounding others.
The rebels used hospital about 100 miles (175km) north-east of Sana’a to treat their wounded from battles in against rival Sunni Islamists.
The Houthis swept through the capital earlier this month after consolidating their grip on northern provinces.
One person was killed and others were wounded in the bombing, a security official said. He was unable to provide exact figures, however, and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.
The attack came as hundreds of people demonstrated in Sana’a, calling on the state security forces to return to the streets and demanding the Houthis.
“For a secure capital free of armed militias,” one banner read.
The protesters also demanded the Houthis return weapons seized from security forces.
Yemen’s main political forces signed a security deal on Saturday in which the Houthis agreed to disarm and withdraw from areas they recently seized. Their main rivals, the Islah party, which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, also signed the deal, part of a comprehensive agreement brokered by the UN.
The agreement would grant the Houthis some executive power, because it stipulates that the president must name two advisers, one from the group and one from Yemen’s southern separatist movement.
It also calls for the formation of a new government within a month and the restoration of fuel subsidies, which the outgoing government ended in July, sparking the political confrontation now engulfing the country.
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