Car bomb explodes near Foreign Ministry building in Yemen's Aden

A car bomb went off on Friday near the Foreign Ministry building in Yemen's temporary capital of Aden, with no casualties reported so far, a security official told Xinhua.

The local Yemeni security source said that the huge explosion occurred in the neighborhood of Mansourah.

Witnesses near the scene confirmed to Xinhua that a suspected al-Qaida attacker detonated his car at the scene after he failed to reach his target."

Meanwhile, local medical officials said that two passers-by were injured in the suicide blast.

The explosion occurred just few hours after pro-government forces supported by UAE helicopters launched an all-out offensive and recaptured new ground from al-Qaida in neighboring southern province of Lahj.

The anti-terror offensive forced dozens of al-Qaida militants to flee their locations in Lahj after the arrival of newly trained pro-government forces in Lahj, according to local sources.

Yemen, an impoverished Arab country, has been gripped by one of the most active regional al-Qaida insurgencies in the Middle East and the affiliate of the Islamic State.

Security situation in the country has deteriorated since March when war broke out between the Shiite Houthi group, supported by former President Ali Abdullash Saleh, and the government backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition.

More than 6,000 people have been killed in ground battles and air strikes since then, half of them civilians. Endit