SANAA // A bomb hit a university campus in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, killing two people at an event commemorating the country’s 1990 unification.
Several people were also seriously wounded, a security official said, adding that the death toll was likely to rise.
The event was organised by the country’s Houthi rebels who have controlled the capital since September 2014 despite a Saudi-led military intervention launched in March last year in support of president Abdrabu Mansur Hadi.
The Houthis were commemorating the May 22, 1990 unification of Yemen after centuries of separation between the north and the south, where British colonial rule was followed by a Soviet-backed communist regime.
There was no immediate claim for Tuesday’s bombing but both Al Qaeda and ISIL have carried out past bombings in the city.
Suicide bombings claimed by ISIL in March last year killed 120 worshippers at mosques in the city.
Meanwhile, the Saudi interior ministry said one of its soldiers had been killed and three others wounded on Monday when a landmine exploded on the border with Yemen.
The blast hit a border patrol in the south-western province of Jazan.
The border area has been largely calm since March, when local tribes brokered a truce between Riyadh and the Houthis.
A UN-sponsored ceasefire came into effect on April 12, paving the way for peace talks which opened in Kuwait on April 21.
There have been repeated walkouts by the government delegation but face-to-face negotiations resumed on Monday.
*Agence France-Presse
