According to the report, At least 46 people were killed when four suicide bombers blew themselves up in two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa during Friday prayers. The sources said at least 200 people were injured in the blasts.
The blasts happened at Al Badr mosque and Al Hashoosh mosque in Sanaa, both of which serve members of the minority Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam the sect followed by the Houthi rebels who recently took control of the capital and forced President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi to flee.
Reports from the Yemen government both mosques are known to be used mainly by supporters of the Shi’ite Muslim Houthi group, which has seized control of the government.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the mosque bombings but supporters of Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, used Twitter to welcome the attacks.
To the report from the Press news agency “The heads, legs and arms of the dead people were scattered on the floor of the mosque and also adding “blood is running like a river”.
Hospitals in Sanaa appealed for blood donors to help treat the large number of casualties. A Reuters witness at the scene of the Badr mosque said he counted at least 25 bloody bodies or corpses lying in the street and inside the mosque building.
This is noticeable that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi escaped Houthi house arrest in Sana’a last month and fled to the southern city of Aden, where violence has erupted in recent days.
According to the report from the Witnesses, as many as four suicide bombers blew themselves up in the mosques, used by the Shia Muslim Houthi group, which has seized control of the government.
In a statement Yemen’s top security body blamed al-Qaida for a car bomb in January that killed 40 people and wounded dozens more at a police academy in Sana’a as recruits lined up to register.
In addition, The United Nations, Arab Gulf nations and several western countries, including the United States, all have issued statements in Hadi’s support.