ADEN, Yemen, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A powerful bomb blast rocked a police station headquarters on Saturday morning, injuring eight security members and a high-ranking police officer in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, a security official said.
The local security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that a powerful bomb blast hit the police station headquarters of al-Gulwah district, injuring eight security members and a high-ranking criminal police officer.
The violent blast shattered the windows of some residential buildings near the police station, he said, adding that suspected al-Qaida militants were believed to be behind the attack.
Local residents said that smokes rose from the center of the building following the blast and the eight injured security troops were taken out by ambulances to a military hospital.
The police station headquarters located near the coastal highway of al-Gulwah, where an al-Qaida suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle near the passing convoy of Yemen's Defense Minister General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, who survived the attack late September.
A number of Aden's military intelligence offices and government buildings experienced during the past three months a series of bomb blasts and suicide attacks, which killed and injured dozens of military members. The government accused militants of the al- Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula of masterminding the attacks.
Meanwhile, the country has seen sporadic violence after Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from Saudi Arabia, where he recuperated from serious wounds he sustained in an explosion in his presidential mansion early June.
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