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ADEN, July 6, (APP/AFP) – Suspected militants seized the headquarters of the military garrison at Aden airport on Wednesday after killing at least seven soldiers at the base in Yemen’s second city, military sources said.
Troops surrounded the headquarters building where between 15 and 20 of the attackers were believed to be holed up, triggering heavy exchanges of fire through the morning, one military source said.
“We have no news of the officers who were inside the building at the time of attack,” the source said.
Security forces in the southern port city, where Yemen’s Saudi-backed
government is based, have come under repeated attack from both the Islamic
State group and its jihadist rival Al-Qaeda.
The assailants, who were wearing military uniforms, penetrated the airport garrison after setting off one car bomb at its entrance then ramming through a second and detonating it inside, another military source said.
The twin bombs killed at least seven soldiers. “The attackers were
jihadists,” the source said.
Reinforcements were rushed to the airport in the city’s Khormaksar
district, where they traded rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire with the militants.
The attack came as Muslims celebrated the feast of Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.