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Scores of people die as car bomb explodes at a hospital run by Houthi rebels, security officials say.
A suicide car bomber has rammed into a field hospital run by a Shia rebel group in Yemen's capital, killing and wounding scores of people, a Yemeni security official has said.
The attack took place on Sunday, some 175 kilometres northeast of Sanaa.
"The attack targetted Houthi rebels in the hospital that they occupied last month and they are using as their headquarters," said Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall, reporting from Sanaa.
"According to the announcement of al-Qaeda, a number of Houthis have been killed and injured in this attack. We do not have any other sources to confirm this as Houthis usually do not announce their casualties."
The Houthis swept through the capital earlier this month after consolidating their grip over northern provinces.
The official said scores of people were killed and wounded in the bombing but was not able to provide exact figures. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.
Anti-Houthi rally
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters from the February 11 Revolution movement marched along the main Zubairi road on Sunday in Sanaa chanting slogans against the Houthis.
"We don't want Houthis any more," shouted the demonstrators, whose movement was behind the 2011 uprising which ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
They urged the rebels to "apologise to the Yemeni people" and implement a UN-brokered peace accord, including a security protocol that stipulated their withdrawal from Sanaa once a new prime minister is named.
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