Blast rocks Yemen near oil HQ

No casualties reported as explosion rocks Sanaa overnight near offices of Canadian oil company.

SANAA – An explosion rocked the Yemeni capital overnight near the offices of Canadian oil company Nexen, without causing any casualties, a security official said on Thursday.

“An explosion took place (in the district of) Hadda, without causing any victims or damage,” a Yemeni official said, requesting anonymity.


It was the latest attack this year against Western targets in Yemen, one of the poorest countries on the planet.

The blast was heard just after midnight in Hadda, which is home to American oil workers whose residental complex was targeted by three mortar rounds on Sunday in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda.

Last month, Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed in an Internet statement to have targeted the US embassy in Sanaa in an attack in which a schoolgirl and a policeman were killed and 19 people were wounded.

Middle East Online