ADEN, Yemen 

At least 10 people were killed and 16 others injured on Thursday in a car bomb attack that targeted a police station in Yemen's Aden, a police official and a NGO said.

"The car bomb went off near the entrance of Sheikh Othman district's police station," the official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to media.

The attack took place while conscripts were gathering for morning assembly.

According to Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian group, 16 injured persons, two of whom in critical condition, were transported to the hospital.

Earlier, a medical source had put the death toll at three. 

*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat