The death toll of two terrorist attacks that targeted army recruits and a military brigade on Monday morning in Yemen's southern port city of Aden reached 50 and 20 others were injured, according to Xinhua News Agency.

The suicide attack targeted the newly-trained soldiers inside the 39th Armored Brigade in Aden's district of Khormaksar, killing about 25 soldiers and injuring 23 others.

At the same time, a car bomb exploded as recruits lined up for meeting a military committee in Khormaksar district in order to enlist for military service.

The car bombing left around 24 dead and a number of others injured, according to the local military sources.

After the two separate bombings, security authorities in Aden received intelligence information about a car filled with explosives in Aden prepared to launch a fresh attack in the city.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest suicide bombings, although the Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot is believed to be behind such attacks in the past, which usually targeted security and government officials.

Yemen, an impoverished Arab country, has been under the grip of one of the most active regional al-Qaeda insurgencies in the Middle East.

The Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot, also known as Ansar al-Sharia, emerged in January 2009. It had claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on Yemen's army and government institutions.

It took advantage of the current security vacuum and the ongoing civil war to expand its influence in Yemen's southern regions.

The fragile security situation in Yemen has deteriorated since March 2015, when a war broke out between the Shiite Houthi group, supported by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the government backed by a Saudi-led coalition.

More than 6,000 people have been killed in ground battles and airstrikes since then, half of them being civilians. More on: [ Ссылка ]

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