In the east of the country, meanwhile, a suspected US drone strike on late Sunday killed five al-Qaeda militants, a local official said.
The
bomber struck on Sunday in Jaar, one of a string of towns in Abyan
province that were retaken by government troops in June after being held
by al-Qaeda loyalists for more than a year.
"An
al-Qaeda suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt during a mourning
ceremony organised by the Popular Resistance Committees," a local
militia that fought alongside the army in its month-long
counter-offensive, said provincial governor Jamal al-Aqal.
An
official at the Razi hospital in Jaar said it had received the bodies
of 24 of the dead, while medics said 12 people died of their wounds in
three hospitals in the main southern city Aden.
Relatives
took the bodies of six of the dead directly from the scene of the
attack for burial, local official Mohsen bin Jamila told.
The 37 wounded were being treated in hospitals in Jaar and Aden.
"The victims' bodies were flying in all directions because the explosion was so powerful," a witness said.
The
deputy head of the municipal authority in Jaar held the government
partially responsible for the attack because of its slowness in
deploying police to the town after its recapture by the army.
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