Yemeni crisis renewed once more
Yemen, Local, 7/16/1998

At least three persons were killed and at least two injured due to the explosion of a bomb inside a house in the village of El-Khadad in Yemen's Lahaj province, while the explosion of a percussion bomb in the district of Kaltex in the Yemeni capital, Aden, lead to material damages.

Eyewitnesses told ArabicNews.com that the explosion in the Lahaj house resulted in the killing of five persons and the injury of two persons, where the primary security investigation spoke about the killing of three persons and the injury of two persons.

The Yemeni security bodies refused to reveal the circumstances of the incident, bet witnesses from neighboring houses tended to relate the explosion to the existence of the substance T.N.T.

They also said that the incident lead to the destruction of the whole house and the death of the five persons who were inside.

It was not excluded that those five persons were trying to set up bombs using this substance, setting off the explosion on accident.

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