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Xinhua News Agency, Kuwait City, August 16 (Reporter Yin Zhi) Aden News: Yemen's Southern Transitional Council issued a statement on the 16th saying that the suicide car bomb attack launched by al-Qaeda in Abyan Province in the south of the country that day has killed at least 16 soldiers and injured 18 other military personnel, some of whom were seriously injured.

A Yemeni security official who declined to be named told Xinhua earlier that the attack took place at around 7 a.m. local time when a suicide bomber suspected of being linked to al-Qaeda drove a vehicle loaded with explosives and broke through a military checkpoint in the Mudia district of Abyan province before detonating a bomb in a school, killing 14 soldiers and injuring 17 others. The school was a temporary base of the Southern Transitional Council's armed forces in Mudia.

Later that day, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at a "military base" in Abyan province on social media.

For many years, the conflict in Yemen has provided space for extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State to operate.

In September 2014, the Houthi armed forces seized the Yemeni capital Sanaa and later occupied southern Yemen. In December 2020, the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council formed a coalition government. So far, most of southern Yemen has achieved nominal unity. In April 2022, Yemeni President Hadi announced in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, that he would transfer presidential power to the newly established Presidential Council, which would succeed him in managing the Yemeni government and continue to promote peace talks with the Houthi armed forces. The Houthi armed forces subsequently issued a statement refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Presidential Council. (End)