SANAA: Two Yemeni policemen were wounded trying to dismantle a bomb in the southern port of Aden minutes after another device exploded in the city, a security source said on Monday.
"A bomb planted in a park facing the official television building in Tawahi district exploded late Sunday wounding two policemen while they were trying to defuse it," a security source told AFP.
One of the officers was critically wounded, the source added.
The explosion came twenty minutes after another bomb explosion at the entrance of the same building, which is located near the port and the building housing the intelligence services in the city.
No casualties were reported in the first incident.
Aden is known for being relatively calm compared to other cities in the south which have witnessed over the past months numerous anti-government protests.
The protests are led by the Southern Movement, a coalition of groups with a range of demands from economic and social improvements to full independence for the regions of former South Yemen.
Yemen’s south was independent from 1967 until 1990 when it united with the north. The south seceded in 1994, sparking a short-lived conflict that ended when the south was overrun by northern troops.
