ISIS claims attack in Yemen's Mukalla, 10 soldiers killed
The militant group said in an online statement that one of its members had blown himself up in a car near government troops
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that killed ten soldiers in the Yemeni port city of Mukalla on Thursday.
The militant group said in an online statement that one of its members had blown himself up in a car near government troops.
Medical sources said earlier that ten soldiers had been killed at a naval camp near the port of Khalaf in Mukalla when a car exploded. About 15 soldiers were wounded, they said.
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