Deadly car bomb hits Shiite mosque in Yemen capital

Yemen

A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a Shiite mosque in the rebel-held Yemeni capital, killing at least one person and wounding five, a week after a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group.Meanwhile, a Saudi-led coalition bombarded cities and towns in southern Yemen, as the targeted Shiite rebels accused it of killing 124 people on Monday in one of the deadliest days of its air war.

Tuesday's bloodshed came two days after UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived in Sanaa bidding to secure a humanitarian ceasefire in a conflict estimated to have killed 3,000 people, mostly civilians.The car bomb, at the Al-Raoudh mosque in southeast Sanaa, went off as worshippers were leaving after evening prayers, witnesses and a security official said.

A security official confirmed the attack, saying the "bomb-rigged car had been parked near the Al-Raoudh mosque".A medical source said at least one person was killed and five more wounded.Elsewhere on Tuesday evening, four rebels were killed and 10 wounded in a suicide car bombing that targeted a police station in rebel-held Baida, in central Yemen, a security official and witnesses said.

Baida is a stronghold of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), also very active in southern and southeastern Yemen. The capital of Sunni-majority Yemen has been under the control of the Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels since September. Since overrunning the capital, the Huthi rebels have expanded their control to other parts of Yemen, forcing President Abedrabbo Manour Hadi and his government to flee to Saudi Arabia.