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Suicide bomber hits South Korean convoy in Yemen

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-18 16:20

SAN'A, Yemen -- A Yemeni security official says a suicide bomber has hit a convoy carrying the South Korean ambassador, but no one was hurt.

South Korean bomb blast survivor Park Jung-sun, 40, is surrounded by reporters upon her arrival from Yemen, at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, March 17, 2009. [Agencies]

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The official says the South Korean delegation includes a team sent to Yemen to investigate a bombing on Sunday that killed four South Korean tourists and their Yemeni driver.

The three-car convoy was targeted on the road to the airport outside the capital.

Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi said Monday that the explosion was a suicide attack by an al-Qaida militant, according to the official news agency SABA.

Yemen is Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland and has long been a center of militant activity.