The death toll from the car bomb attack that targeted Saleh al-Sayyed, the Lahj province’s head of Security, who is loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), has risen to eight Medical sources reported on Wednesday.
According to the medical sources, ten others were injured, including civilians in the bombing , which took place on a busy road near an educational institute in Khor Maksar district.
The families of a number of victims of the bombing revealed that their relatives were shot dead by live bullets, not killed by the explosion.
Activist Abu Elias al-Kazmi accused Saleh al-Sayyed of killing civilians following the blast.
“Our children, who were killed today in the bombing, were shot dead by live bullets, not by fragments of the explosion ,” al-Kazmi said.
The soldiers of al-Sayyed’s security detail, frightened during the bombing, allegedly fired hysterically and indiscriminately at passers-by after the explosion. Amongst those killed in the shootings were passengers on a transport bus near the explosion, as well as a restaurant worker and drivers who were passing by.
Al-Kazmi said his cousin Mohammed Awad al-Saidi was killed during the blast in Aden.
