Yemen: Governor of Aden killed in a car bombing

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Sunday 06 Dec 2015 - 15:28 Makkah mean time-24-2-1437 Aden (IINA) – The governor of Yemen's second city Aden was killed on Sunday by a car bomb that tore through a residential neighborhood, AFP reported citing a local official and witnesses. The attack killed Jaafar Saad and an unspecified number of his bodyguards in the Tawahi district of the major port city, the sources said. Saad's death comes a day after UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed held talks with President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Aden aimed at kick-starting peace talks between the warring sides. AB/IINA