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Yemeni journalist Mohammed Aydah killed by car bomb in Mukalla; no group claims responsibility
A correspondent for Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television died when a bomb planted on his car exploded late Wednesday in Yemen's eastern Hadramout governorate. Authorities had warned him of threats one month earlier.
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Al-Monitor reported that Mohammed Aydah, a Yemeni journalist working for Al Arabiya and its sister channel Al Hadath, was killed late on Wednesday when a bomb planted on his car exploded in Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout governorate. Mukalla security authorities had warned Aydah approximately one month earlier that his life was under threat. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The killing occurred against a backdrop of political tensions. Clashes between Saudi-backed forces and UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council separatists flared between November and January. Mukalla changed hands during the fighting, and Saudi-backed forces now control the city.
The Southern Transitional Council condemned the assassination in a statement and linked broader security problems in Hadramout to the dismantling of its units. Those units had helped oust al Qaeda from the region in 2016. Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen's presidential leadership council, directed the formation of a high-level joint committee to investigate the killing.
He stated that the state would spare no effort in pursuing the perpetrators. Yemen has been in conflict since 2014, when Iran-backed Houthi forces captured Sanaa and prompted a Saudi-led coalition intervention. The Committee to Protect Journalists ranks the country among the most dangerous in the world for journalists.
