Sanaa admits Wednesday's explosion
Yemen, Politics, 8/6/1999

The Yemeni mass media on Thursday said that five persons were killed and another 43 wounded when an explosive charge went off in Sanaa, thereby refuting the police version about the explosion on that it was a result of a family row.

The final result of the attack, which took place on Wednesday night, as published by September 26 newspaper said that five were killed and 43 wounded, including six in critical condition.

The Yemeni news agency Saba said that the massacre "committed by an extremist who was arrested together with five of his friends after he violently" resisted the police for three hours.

Saba added that he has been investigated and the results of "the investigations will appear very soon."

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