By The Daily Journalist.
One of the Yemeni branches of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that struck two Shiite mosques Friday in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, leaving at least 142 dead and 300 wounded.
In a Twitter message reported in the ‘Province of Sanaa’, one of the two related groups in yemení- IS ground attacks on two places of worship was frequented by supporters and leaders of the rebel Shiite group Hutíes that control the capital and several provinces north and west.
“They the polytheists hutíes now know the soldiers of the Islamic State will not rest and will not stand up to until we eradicate them. We will frustrate their assault and abort the Safavid project [a powerful dynasty that Persia ruled between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries] in Yemen, with the power and strength of Allah, ” the brief statement referring to provoke Iran and its support for hutíes.
The text also specifies that four bombers detonated their explosive belts in mosques in order to “hit the haunts of hutíes”. In fact, the imam of the Al Hashush – is Taha Ahmed al Mutauakil, member of the executive of the hutíes who was injured in the attack.
Yemen is mired in a deep political conflict, worsened since President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi last month in Aden failed to recant his resignation and announced he was still the legitimate president of the country, as opposed to what was dictated by hutíes.
The first attack was carried out by two suicide bombers who detonated their explosive belts inside in the vicinity of the Shiite mosque of Al Hashush, located in the district of Al Yarraf, north of Sanaa, which left dozens dead and wounded.
Moreover, sources of Shiite rebel group hutíes have reported that at least 30 people were killed in another double attack on the Badr mosque in the center of Sanaa also frequented by the Shiites.
As for the attack on the Al Hashuh, the first of the explosions in the area took place at a checkpoint in the hutíes on a street that leads to this temple, which left five dead and several wounded.
The second blast occurred inside the mosque during Friday noon prayer, and left dozens dead and wounded.
After the second attack, survivors described the outbreak as “very strong” and explained that after the blasts “the black smoke filled the ceiling for several minutes inside the mosque blurring peoples eye vision.”
Several trucks and ambulances evacuated the remains of the victims of this double attack, which took a time interval of half an hour between an explosion and another.
