Yemen Says Soldier Carried Parade Suicide Bomb

The suicide bomber who killed more than 90 people during the rehearsal of a Yemeni military parade yesterday was a soldier, a senior official said today after the country’s president attended a Unification Day procession shielded by bullet-proof glass.

The bomber was a member of Yemen’s central security forces, Ali Mohammed al-Anisi, national security chief, told reporters after today’s celebration. Central security forces are a police unit whose second-in-command is the nephew of the country’s ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al-Anisi declined to give further details on the bomber, saying only that a committee chaired by President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi will investigate the attack.