Suicide bomber kills two in Aden

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) A suspected Al Qaeda suicide bomber killed two militiamen yesterday at a checkpoint in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, already beset by violence, a security source said.
The bomber approached the militiamen as they were inspecting cars at a large intersection in the Mansoura district and detonated an explosive vest, killing the guards and himself, the source said.
Aden is the nominal seat of Yemen's embattled government.
Forces from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia helped Aden's militias to oust the Houthis and their allies from the city in July, but have struggled to enforce order and clamp down on militant groups, including Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government had returned from exile in Saudi Arabia to start operating in Aden, but mostly went back to Riyadh after Islamic State mounted a wave of attacks on the government and allied Gulf forces three weeks ago.
Islamist militants appeared to have gained ground in the southern city, where militants are now visibly present.
Militants have threatened to use force against university students in Aden if they do not observe segregation of the sexes on campus, witnesses said.
Students said armed militants distributed leaflets containing the threats and signed by the Islamic State group in at least three departments of the university of Aden.
The leaflets also banned music and demanded that students perform collective prayers on campus, they added.
They set a Thursday deadline for the demands to be met.
Otherwise they threatened to carry out car bomb and petrol bomb attacks.
The authenticity of the leaflets signed by the Aden and Abyan branch of IS could not be immediately verified.
Al Qaeda, active across several parts of Yemen, has exploited the collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that ousted veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh.