Twenty arrested on bombing charges

The Yemeni authorities said they arrested 22 persons on charges of being involved in a series of bombings in the country.

Hussein Mohammed Arab, the Yemeni minister of interior, told reporters that the suspects received money from foreign countries to work on destabilizing the situation in Yemen, but he did not announce the names of these foreign countries or of those who were arrested.

The Yemeni interior minister also announced the arrest of a man who is suspected of placing a bomb in a mosque in Sanaa in last April, due to which two men were killed and another 25 injured.