Suicide bomber kills at least 30 soldiers in Yemen’s Aden
By Reuters
18 December 2016 |
2:00 pm
A suicide bomber killed at least 30 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday a week after an attack by the militant Islamic State group killed 50 troops nearby.
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