A politician from Yemen’s Islah Party was killed Thursday in a bomb attack in the southwestern province of Dhamar, a source said.
Abdel Razzaq al-Sarrari, who led the party in Al-Hada district, was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack, said a party official who requested anonymity due to security concerns.
The device was planted at the door of a mosque where al-Sarrari was praying, and it went off as soon as he stepped out, he added.
This is the fifth party leader who has been assassinated in Dhamar [since the Houthi rebels came to power], the source said.
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The Islah Party is the political front of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen.
Impoverished Yemen has remained in the throes of a bloody civil war since 2014, when Shia Houthi rebels overran much of the country, including Sanaa, forcing President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and his government to flee the capital.