ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least two policemen were seriously injured Thursday evening when a powerful blast rocked a police station in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, a security official said.
High explosive devices exploded at the rear gate of a police station in the Cairo neighborhood in northwest Mansoura district, injuring two policemen, the local official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast caused serious damage to the police station headquarters and shattered the windows of some neighboring residential buildings, the official said.
Suspected al-Qaida militants were believed to be behind the attack, according to the official.
A number of police stations, military intelligence offices and government buildings in Aden have experienced during the past two months a series of bomb blasts and suicide attacks, which killed and injured dozens of military members.
Thursday's blast came just two days after an al-Qaida suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle on a coastal highway in Aden next to the passing convoy of Yemen's Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, who survived the attack safely.
The Yemeni army forces have been fighting for more than three months against militants of the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), who apparently took advantage of the country's political crisis to expand their military operations and seize control over the lawless southern and eastern territories.
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