SANAA, Yemen - a suicide bomber car struck a convoy of Yemeni Shia on your way to a religious ceremony Wednesday, kill 17 and wounding more than 15 people, a security official said.
Authorities suspect that al Qaeda is behind the attack, though it would be first reported direct attack on the Shia minority the extremist organization.
Yemen's local branch Al Qaeda al has the last year, have been increasingly active attack government objectives within the country as well as implementation profiles attacks abroad as such as last month's attempt to send parcel bombs in the United States on cargo aircraft.
During the militant Shiite rhetorically extremely hostile towards Yemen community yet were, you directly in the Yemen unlike the Iraq attacked where sectarian warfare is more pronounced.
Like many Arab countries throughout the region Yemen's Muslim population is divided between the majority Sunni and Shia, hardline Sunni often described who as heretics.
The Yemeni official said the attack in al Jawf province, 175 km northeast of the capital, Sana'a stattfand.Den killed were followers of Shia Hawthi rebels, a tribal group, the an up and off uprising against the Government led reposeful official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
A Hawthi spokesperson confirmed the victims and added that the rebels also al Qaeda involvement vermutet.Er spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of Government reprisals.
The attack comes two months after al Qaeda, the Hawthis accused of two its members to catch and you pass to the Security Executive of the Saada province.
Since January 2009, if al Qaeda Saudi and Yemen broken branches merged to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist group always encouraged attacks in the capital and the surrounding landscape against officials and foreigners are Director.
Apart from the al Qaeda threat also has Yemen weak central Government fought a separatist movement in the South and the Hawthi rebels in the North.
Occasional skirmishes between government troops and the Shiite rebels have expressed, the six-year-old conflict, which could ignite almost to a regional war.
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