Sanaa, Yemen
Yemeni Interior Minister Abdel-Razeq al-Moyaad has sacked director of the country's police academy in Sanaa, one day after a car bombing killed dozens of people and injured more others just outside its premises, a security source said.
"The minister dismissed Ali Sherafi as the director of the police academy and appointed Abdullah Qiran in his stead," the source, requesting anonymity, told The Anadolu Agency.
The minister also fired head of the Police Club, which is only meters away from the academy, the source said.
"The two were sacked due to their failure to preserve security around the premises of the two sites," the source added.
At least 40 people were killed and 66 others injured in a car bombing on Wednesday morning outside the police academy in central Sanaa. The bomb went off as a group of aspiring cadets had gathered to enroll at the academy.
Fractious Yemen has remained in the throes of turmoil since the ouster of long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012.
The Shiite Houthi group recently took control of Sanaa and has since tried to extend its influence to other parts ofthe country.
This has pitted the movement against local Sunni tribes and Al-Qaeda, which is said to remain active in Yemen.
