Yemeni security forces were deployed to the streets of the capital Sanaa to prevent possible terrorist attacks against foreign targets, hours after a suicide bomber killed ten police cadets and injured about20 others.
The Al-Qaeda bomber blew himself up at the police academy while tens of cadets were coming out and the authorities identified the bomber who died in hospital several hours after the operation.
The bombing was the second in the recent two months after the deadliest attack on a military parade rehearsal in May, which killed more than one hundred security forces and injured three hundred others.
The forces were inspecting cars, motorbikes and some persons in main streets and blocks coinciding with orders to tight security around key local and foreign offices and residences including those of foreign diplomats in Sanaa.
The interior ministry said the move was aimed at placing the security authorities on high alert to face possible terrorist attacks after Al-Qaeda vowed to take warfare with the government into the capital.
Protecting the foreign embassies and the residences of foreign diplomats is a top priority at the moment, it said.
The Yemeni army drove Al-Qaeda militants out of their strongholds in the south after a US-backed offensive in the past few months. Hundreds of militants including senior leaders were killed and arrested.
Now, the authorities are pursuing the remaining militants who escaped from Abyan and Shabwa within an extensive hunt across the republic.