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| Bomb @ Yemen. (AP Photo) |
Attacks targeting Shia pilgrims, including Houthi militias, AFP reported.
The series of bombings was the most deadly attack ever occurred in Yemen, a country grappling with rising instability and division among the groups.
The incident came a day after clashes between forces loyal to President Mansour Hadi Abedrabbo and allies Houthi Shiite militias in Aden, a city in the southern part of the country where the leader last month to secure themselves.
Suicide bombers targeting two mosques attended by the Houthis, a group that has seized the capital, Sanaa.
One bomb exploded in the Badr mosque in Sanaa south while the other one targeting pilgrims when they come out, witnesses said.
The third bomb hit the al-Hashus in northern Sanaa.
Nashwan al-Atab, operating committee members health ministry, told AFP that 142 people were killed and at least 351 others were injured.
Television Al-Massira militia belonging Houthi said hospitals in the capital it has requested the deployment of emergency blood donation.
Imam Badr mosque became one of the dead, according to a source in the medical community.
A more bombings blew themselves up outside a mosque in Saad, fort Huthi in the northern region, said a source close to the militia. Only the attacker was killed in the blast and tight security at the mosque had to avoid the bomber entered the mosque, the source said.
Through a network statement, branch IS in Sanaa, previously unknown, expressed as a responsible party in a series of bombings and said that this new "tip of the iceberg".

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