- A pregnant Yemeni journalist and her journalist husband were bombed on their way to the hospital to give birth.
- Rasha Abdallah died and her husband Mahmud al-Atmi was injured in the Aden bombing.
- The couple has worked with many local and regional media and has a two-year-old child.
DUBAI – A pregnant Yemeni journalist was bombed while going to the hospital to deliver her baby. Her journalist husband was killed, her journalist husband and a security source said.
A source from the government army told AFP:
When reporter Mahmud al-Atmi took his wife Rasha Abdallah to the hospital to deliver a baby, the explosive device in his car exploded.
The bombing took place in the southern city of Aden, the temporary seat of the Yemeni government.
Abdullah, 27, is also a journalist. Her husband has worked with many local and regional media.
They have a two-year-old child.
There was no immediate claim for the bombing, but Atmi said he suspected that the Houthi rebels backed by Iran in Yemen were behind the attack.
“They tried to find out my home address,” he told AFP.
“The worst humanitarian crisis in the world”
The Houthis occupied the capital Sana’a in 2014, causing the internationally recognized government to move to Aden and prompting the Saudi-led military alliance that supports it to intervene.
Since the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, thousands of people (mainly civilians) have been killed and millions have been displaced. The United Nations has called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
At the end of last month, at least 12 civilians including children were killed in a car bomb explosion near Aden Airport.
Nearly three weeks after the explosion, six people were killed in a car bomb attack on the governor of Aden, and the governor of Aden survived.
Aden was the birthplace of the separatist movement that uneasily integrated into the central government last year, and both have long aligned with the Houthi rebels in a fierce civil war.
Yemeni journalists are among the victims of the conflict.
Last year, Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, a Yemeni journalist who contributed to AFP, was also shot dead in Aden.
The 34-year-old videographer and photographer also worked in other major news organizations in the area. He was shot and killed by an unidentified attacker in his car shortly after leaving home.
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