Two killed, 20 injured in Yemen attack
Bomber rams car into police station
Two people, including a policeman, were killed and up to 20 others were wounded when a suicide bomber in a car exploded his device outside police headquarters in the east Yemen town of Sayun on Friday, witnesses and medics said.
It was not clear who carried out the attack in which the driver of the vehicle and a policeman were killed, according to AlArabiya TV.
The blast caused damage to some buildings in the area and a power outage, AlArabiya reported.
Hospital sources said the 20 wounded included both police and civilians. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Background
Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, is grappling with a campaign by al-Qaeda militants, who have said they were behind several attacks in recent months, including a shelling near the U.S. embassy and a mortar attack on a refinery in Aden.
The government has also been fighting Shiite rebels loyal to Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in the northern province of Saada since 2004, a battle which President Ali Abdullah Saleh said last week had ended.