A senior Yemeni military officer was seriously injured losing both his legs Sunday following an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda in the capital Sanaa, police said.
Brigadier Abdullah al-Mihdhar of the martial intelligence unit suffered multiple injuries when a sophisticated improvised explosive device planted under his car went off minutes after he left his house, Xinhua reported.
Witnesses said the explosion was so powerful that blast a part of the car was splintered.
The incident happened a week after the Al Qaeda network in Yemen announced that its no. 2 Said al-Shehri was killed in a US drone strike.
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