Car bomb in Yemeni capital hits mourners, dozens wounded

TOP NEWS Yemeni forces launch Scud missile at Saudi Arabia - Yemen military spokesman Mon, Jun 29 22:54 PM BST SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces launched a Scud missile at a missile base in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Yemeni state news agency Saba quoted the military's spokesman as saying. "The rocket units in our heroic armed forces today launched a Scud missile at the Al Sulayyil missile base in Riyadh province ... it comes as a response to the crimes of the brutal Saudi aggression," Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said. (Reporting By Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Alan Crosby) Twitter | Search Home Connect Trends Me M2_tab_indicator Tweet Haykal Bafana Haykal Bafana @BaFana3 Now in #Yemen : Scud missile launched towards Al Salil base, Wasi Dawaasir in #Saudi Arabia Riyadh province. 2:57 PM - 29 Jun 2015 24 Retweets 9 Favorites Reply Retweet Favorite More Abdulrahman Alrazhi Abdulrahman Alrazhi @AAlrazhi 1h @BaFana3 #Eat_Kabsa_and_Scud :D View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite wtfarab wtfarab @wtfarab 1h @AAlrazhi @BaFana3 lol... i needed that. View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Haykal Bafana Haykal Bafana @BaFana3 1h What's the range from the Yemen-KSA border to this Saudi missile base in Riyadh province? About 800 km? Can Scuds go that far? View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite فارس سعيد فارس سعيد @farissaeedtaiz 1h @BaFana3 yes it can View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite #Resistance #Resistance @HeartOfRebelion 1h @BaFana3 we about to find out View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite BiladAlFransi BiladAlFransi @BFransi 1h @BaFana3 SCUD-D can reach 700km, but their are not in the Yemeni inventory. Yemen has SCUD-B with a range of 300km View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite BiladAlFransi BiladAlFransi @BFransi 1h @BaFana3 they* View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Urban Dictionary Urban Dictionary @abu3aseed 1h @BaFana3 top range is 700km View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Insurrection News Insurrection News @InsurrectNews 1h @BaFana3 The Rodong-1 scuds made by N Korea have a range of 1000km en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud#Rodo… View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Hana Alshowafi Hana Alshowafi @Hanaalshowafi 1h Same inquiry"@BaFana3:What's the range 4m the Yemen-KSA border 2this Saudi missile base n Riyadh province?Abt 800 km?Can Scuds go that far? View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Tonton du Bled Tonton du Bled @NextDoorArab 59m @BaFana3 yes the scud c can but I think most of them have been destroyed. The Base nevertheless was within range of hwasong 5 scud b missile View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Haykal Bafana Haykal Bafana @BaFana3 58m Yemen army spokesman announcing the Scud launch on Riyadh province missile base warns Saudi Arabia "More surprises come." View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Isonomia92 Isonomia92 @Pianafierro 56m @BaFana3 dependes de modification, in the original version no, but in new ones yes (even 1500 km it's said) View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Hamed Afaashi Hamed Afaashi @HamedGhaleb 47m @BaFana3 from hadrmout border with aljawf province it can pic.twitter.com/4QHoMqG7nN View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Haykal Bafana Haykal Bafana @BaFana3 47m I'm half hoping the next Scud missile surprise from Yemen will target Hadi's Riyadh villa. View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Oglo Olio Oglo Olio @OgloOlio 46m @BaFana3 400 km max. View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite #اليمن #Yemen #اليمن #Yemen @Walled_Alsafani 44m @bafana3 why not ^_^ View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Nadav Pollak Nadav Pollak @NadavPollak 42m @BaFana3 Most Scuds can't get to more than 400-500 KM, the Scud D can get to 700 KM View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite خالد الاحمدي خالد الاحمدي @k2h2al2ed 38m @HamedGhaleb @SultanatZman @BaFana3 اووووووووه قررررح القات😂😂😂😂😂 View conversation · Reply Retweet Favorite Enter a topic, @name, or fullname Settings Help Back to top · Turn images off Car bomb in Yemeni capital hits mourners, dozens wounded SANAA A car bomb claimed by Islamic State exploded in the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, medics said, wounding at least 28 people gathered to mourn another attack earlier this month. In a new sign that three months of war in Yemen was ratcheting up, the country's military spokesman said its forces had launched a Scud missile at a Saudi military base on Tuesday. A Saudi-led military alliance has been bombing Yemen's dominant Houthi group and its allies in the army to dislodge them from the capital and restore the exiled president. A sectarian-tinged conflict has raged throughout Yemen's south and center, pitting the Shi'ite Muslim Houthis against mostly Sunni local militiamen who support the Arab intervention. ADVERTISING The political vacuum has given hardline Sunni militants greater room to operate. They regard the Houthis as apostates worthy of death, and the overnight blast was the latest in a series of attacks on the group and their supporters. Related Coverage › Yemeni forces launch Scud missile at Saudi Arabia: Yemen military spokesman "The explosion was caused by a car bomb which exploded behind the military hospital in the Sha'oub district in Sanaa, which injured 28 people including 12 women in a building where victims of a previous attack were being mourned," a medical source said. In a statement posted online, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it had targeted the area "out of revenge for the Muslims against the Houthi apostates." Despite the months of Arab air strikes backing up the Houthis' armed opponents in Yemen, the Houthis have not lost ground on the battlefield and have stepped up their exchanges of artillery and rocket fire with Saudi forces along their border. Yemeni forces launched a Scud missile at a missile base in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Yemeni state news agency Saba quoted the military's spokesman as saying. "The rocket units in our heroic armed forces today launched a Scud missile at the Al Sulayyil missile base in Riyadh province ... it comes as a response to the crimes of the brutal Saudi aggression," Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said. Luqman said the attack hit the base, which is about 450 km (280 miles) south of the Saudi capital Riyadh, but a previous Scud launched by Yemen's forces earlier this month was shot down by Saudi patriot missiles despite Yemeni claims it struck its target. (Reporting By Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Toni Reinhold)