Al-Qaeda behind Yemen bombing: report
Bomb struck girls' school near US embassy in Sanaa
Al-Qaeda was behind a bomb attack that struck a girls' school near the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa earlier this week, a report said on Saturday citing a security official.
The Al-Thawra newspaper said the official identified the suspect in Tuesday's attack as Hamza al-Dhayany, who he said was already wanted by the authorities in connection with previous attacks.
"Dhayany launched rockets that were mounted on a car toward the school," said the official, whom the paper did not identify.
A schoolgirl and a policeman were killed and 19 people wounded in the bombing which Washington said targeted the U.S. embassy.
One of the world's poorest countries, Yemen is awash with weapons and is the ancestral homeland of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in October 2000 that killed 17 U.S. sailors on the destroyer USS Cole in the southern port of Aden.
And in December 2002, three American doctors were killed and a fourth gravely wounded in an attack by an Islamist extremist at a Baptist hospital in Jibla, south of Sanaa.