Twenty people were wounded after two explosives detonated on a busy street in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.
No one was injured in the first blast, but after a crowd began to gather, a second explosive, hidden under a pile of trash, injured 20 people, the Associated Press reported.
Yemen has been rocked by turmoil since 2011 when al-Qaeda’s local branch seized significant swaths of territory during political upheaval that led to the ouster of longtime autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh, AP reported.
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The new U.S.-backed president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, spoke out against Saleh in a speech Thursday, hailing Yemen’s Arab Spring uprising.
His comments come as the country begins to map out a new charter.
Islamist hardliner Abdul-Majeed el-Zidani on Thursday called for a stronger a role for Islamic law in the country’s new constitution, AP reported.
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