At least five killed in Yemen blast: witness

AFP, July, 2008

SANAA (AFP) — At least five people were killed in an explosion in central Saada, a town in northwest Yemen at the heart of a Shiite revolt, a witness said Saturday.

The witness, asking not to be named, said the blast near Saada's post office also left a number of people wounded. Rescue services evacuated the casualties as security forces sealed off the site.

Yemen's Saada province in mountains on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the heartland of an uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite rebels in 2004 in which thousands of people have died.

The two sides signed a Qatari-brokered peace deal in June last year but there has been repeated wrangling about its implementation.

The insurgents are known as Huthis after their late commander, Hussein Badr Eddin...