IS’s self-styled news
agency Amaq told BBC that the group had carried out Monday’s attack.
Not less than 60 people
have been killed after a suicide car bomb exploded at a military facility in
the southern Yemen city of Aden.
Also hit was a training
camp, used by the pro-government popular resistance militia.
Islamic State have claimed
responsibility for the attack.
It comes amid a fresh push
to end Yemen’s 17-month old war between Saudi-backed government and rebels.
Some 2.5 million Yemenis
have also been displaced as a result of the fighting.
Meanwhile, the government and
rebels have responded positively to a new gulf-backed initiative to end the
conflict.
The rebels, however said
they were prepared to restart negotiations, provided the Saudi-led coalition
stopped attacking and laying siege to territories held by them.
The last peace talks in
Kuwait earlier in August collapsed.
The Saudi-led coalition has
been carrying out air strikes in Yemen since March 2015 in support of the
internationally recognised government of President Abedrabbo Hadi.
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