ADEN, YEMEN – The death toll has risen to 54, after a suicide bombing at a local militia compound in the southern Yemeni city of Aden early this morning. ISIS has since claimed responsibility for the attack.
A spokesperson for a local charity-run medical center said at least 60 other wounded people have also been hospitalized.
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A security official and witnesses said a suicide bomber drove a car into the building used by The Popular Resistance, a local force that assisted in driving out Iran-allied Houthis from the region earlier this year.
The troops were at a staging area near two schools and a mosque, preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to assist in skirmishes along Yemen's northern border.
Yemen is currently in the midst of a civil war, pitting the government and a Saudi-led coalition against a rebel force and army units, loyal to a former Yemeni president.