ISIL suicide bomber kills 135 during Sana’a Friday prayer

Rasa - At least 142 people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded after three bomb attacks hit mosques crowded with worshippers in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in quick succession.

News ID: 2252

Date: 20 March 2015 - 21:18

RNA - Yemeni TV station linked to Houthi revolutionary fighters reports that at least 135 Yemeni Shiite worshipers attending Friday prayers were killed and nearly 351 suffered injuries in the bomb attacks targeting Badr mosque in southern Sana’a and al-Hashoosh mosque in the northern part of the capital earlier in today.

"The heads, legs and arms of the dead people were scattered on the floor of the mosque," Mohammed al-Ansi told The Associated Press, adding, "blood was running like a river."

Al-Ansi recalled running for the door along with other survivors and hearing one man screaming, "come back, save the injured!"

Another survivor from the Badr mosque, Ahmed al-Gabri, said: "I fell on the ground and when I regained conscious I found myself sleeping on a lake of blood."

The Al-Masirah TV channel said a fifth suicide bomb attack on another mosque was foiled in the northern city of Saada - a Houthi stronghold.

In an online statement, the previously unknown Sanaa branch of Isil warned that the bombings were "just the tip of the iceberg".

"Infidel Huthis should know that the soldiers of the Islamic State will not rest until they eradicate them... and cut off the arm of the Safavid plan in Yemen," the statement from the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group said.

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