ISIS suicide jihadi kills at least 60 people after driving car bomb into army training camp in Yemen
Abu Sufiyan al-Adani is reported to have driven his vehicle into a group of new recruits at the camp
THIS is the smiling 'ISIS suicide bomber' said to be responsible for a sickening attack on an army training camp in Yemen which killed dozens of people today.
Abu Sufiyan al-Adani is reported to have driven his vehicle into a group of new recruits at the camp in Aden killing at least 60 and leaving 29 more injured.
The killed and wounded recruits, most in their 20s and 30s, were signing up for military training in Djibouti and Eritrea.
Once there, they would have been prepared to fight Shiite Houthi rebels in the north, near the border with Saudi Arabia.
The port city, the temporary base of Yemen's Gulf-backed government, has seen a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces.
Yemeni authorities have trained hundreds of soldiers in Aden over the past two months to as part of operations to retake neighbouring southern provinces from jihadists.
The attack came amid a fresh push to end Yemen's 17-month-old war between Saudi-backed government and rebels that the UN says has left 6,600 people dead.
ISIS's self-styled news agency Amaq said the group had carried out the attack.
“It’s been a shaky morning,” Hassan Boucenine, who leads the Yemen branch of Doctors Without Borders, said after witnessing the attack.
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“The explosion rocked my windows, and I was like 300 meters away. It was not nice. But we are treating everyone.”
Meanwhile, the government and rebels have responded positively to a new Gulf-backed initiative to end the conflict.
The plan, announced last week by the US, calls for the withdrawal of Shia Houthi rebels from the capital, Sanaa, and talks on forming a unity government.
The rebels said they were prepared to restart negotiations, provided the Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and laying siege to territories held by them.
The latest round of peace talks in Kuwait collapsed earlier this month.
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 Mansour Hadi.
The campaign began after the Houthi rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took over parts of the country, including Sanaa, forcing the government into exile.
The government and its allies have since retaken Aden. Saudi Arabia says the Houthis are supported financially and militarily by its regional rival Iran - something Tehran denies.