UN Chief slams deadly terrorist attacks in Yemen

Sanaa/ New York: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and called on “all Yemeni sides to immediately cease all hostile actions and exercise maximum restraint.”
 
Four suicide bombers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa blew themselves up at two mosques during Friday prayers, killing at least 137 people and injuring 350. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the mosque bombings but supporters of Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, used Twitter to welcome the attacks. The mosques in Sanaa are known to be used mainly by supporters of the Shi’ite Muslim Houthi group, which controls most of northern Yemen, including Sanaa.