A convoy of three cars was attacked in Saada province, a stronghold of Yemen's Shiite rebels, as they were heading to Dahyan near the Saudi border for the funeral.1
The attack on Friday follows a similar suicide car bomb attack on Wednesday that killed 23 Shiites.1,2
Badreddin al-Huthi1 or Badr al-Din al-Houthi,2 86, had long suffered from asthma1 and died of natural causes.2
He was the spiritual leader of the Houthi rebel movement, named after the Houthi clan.2
The rebels from the Zaidi sect of Shi'ite Islam have long fought the government over complaints of social, religious and economic discrimination.2
A ceasefire in February halted the fighting that displaced 350,000, but there had since been sporadic clashes between the rebels and government-aligned tribes.2
Source: 1. AFP, 2. Reuters
Comment: Expect more such attacks, like there was in Iraq. This is just another front in the Sunni-Shiite clash with the added clan and tribal considerations.
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