Yemeni journalist dies in bomb attack in Aden city

Yemeni journalist Rasha Abdullah Al Harazi died today when an explosive device placed in her car exploded in the city of Aden, controlled by the separatist Southern Transitional Council, in an attack in which her husband, also an informant, was also wounded, sources indicated. safety and health.

A police source told Efe that the vehicle in which Al Harazi, who was nine months pregnant, and her husband, Mohamed al Otomi, were traveling exploded while traveling in the Jur Maksar neighborhood and that apparently the bomb was detonated from remotely.

The two journalists worked for media in the United Arab Emirates, a country that in Yemen’s armed conflict for seven years has supported the Southern Transitional Council, a movement that is currently part of the internationally recognized government in its war against the Shiite Houthi rebels.

A medical source from the Al Jumhuriya hospital, where the victims were treated, explained to Efe on condition of anonymity that Al Harazi died instantly at the scene of the explosion.

According to eyewitnesses, his vehicle was burned by the deflagration.

Yemen is one of the countries where journalists are most at risk, both from the armed conflict and the persecution they suffer.

In June last year, Aden was the scene of the murder of another journalist, the photographer Nabil al Qaiti, who collaborated with the agency France Presse and who died after being attacked by armed men at the door of his house.

Aden is the provisional capital of Yemen’s recognized government as the capital, Sana’a, was taken over by the Houthi rebels along with large parts of the center and west of the country in late 2014. (I)