EXPLOSION IN MARIB

YEMEN: Misna. An explosion at an archaeological site In Marib in northeastern Yemen has left at least nine people dead, mostly Spanish tourists. International news sources also said at least one Yemeni national was killed. There has been widespread suggestions that this was an attack perpetrated by international terrorism as suggested by a note through which a well-known terrorist organization in Sana’a had demanded the release of some of its militants threatening unspecified reprisals, while other sources, local ones, are pointing the blame to internal tensions in the country. The available information appears to confirm the use of a car bomb for the explosion.[AB]