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Aftermath of suicide bomb attack at funeral that killed at least 30
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Jaar, Abyan province
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Hadramawt province
2. Wide of a vehicle suspected to have been struck by an aerial drone which lead to the death of four Al-Qaida members
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4:3 Bomb misses defence minister, kills 13 people
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Sanaa - 11 Sept 2012
3. Wide of bystanders and security in street with smoke billowing from burning vehicles in background
4. Wide of burning car
5 Smoke at scene after flames have been extinguished, bystanders and police in foreground
STORYLINE:
On August 4th 2012 Yemen's state news agency said the death toll from a suspected al-Qaida suicide bomb attack on a funeral service in a southern city has risen to more than 30 people.
SABA said on August 5th that another 40 people were injured in the bombing late on August 4th in Jaar.
It said most of the victims were members of the civilian militias that helped the army in a two month long campaign that recaptured Jaar from al-Qaida militants in June.
Earlier reports said 15 were killed.
Al-Qaida-affiliated militants took control of wide swaths of the south in 2011 during the country's popular uprising.
Military officials also said five suspected al-Qaida militants were killed on Saturday in a suspected U.S. aerial drone strike on their vehicle in southeastern Hadramawt province.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media.
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On September 11th a car bomb struck the Yemeni defence minister's motorcade as he was driving through the capital Sanaa, killing at least 13 people but leaving the minister unharmed, security officials said.
The blast hit the last vehicle in the minister's three-car convoy as it was travelling through Sanaa's al-Izaa neighbourhood, Yemeni security officials said.
The explosion also blew out the windows of storefronts and scorched an adjacent building.
Eight of the minister's security guards and five civilian bystanders were killed, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, though al-Qaida's Yemeni branch has carried out several failed assassination attempts against the minister, Major General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed.
The attack comes a day after Yemeni authorities announced the death of the number two leader of the network's Yemeni branch, Saeed al-Shihri, in an apparent US air-strike.
Al-Qaida's Yemeni branch is seen as the world's most active, planning and carrying out attacks against targets in Yemen as well as in the US.
The group took advantage of the political vacuum during unrest inspired by the Arab Spring in 2011 against the country's long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
As government forces were focused on suppressing protests in the capital and elsewhere, al-Qaida seized control of large swaths of southern Yemen.
The group governed several major cities in the south for months until a US-backed Yemeni military offensive led by the new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was able to push the militants into hiding.
In another blow to the group, the death of al-Shihri is seen as a major breakthrough for US efforts to cripple al-Qaida in Yemen.
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