Deadly blast overshadows Yemen leader swearing-in | Bangkok Post: news

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle outside a presidential palace in southeastern Yemen Saturday, killing 26 elite troops and overshadowing the swearing in of the first new president in Sanaa since 1978.

Yemeni security is seen along a main road littered with debris after a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle outside a presidential palace in Mukalla, in southeastern Yemen. The suicide bomber killed 26 elite troops, overshadowing the swearing in of the first new president in Sanaa since 1978.

A military official said the bombing in the Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla bore the hallmark of Al-Qaeda, as Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi took the oath to succeed strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh and pledged to press the battle against the jihadists.