A child was among three people killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a sports club in a rebel-held town of central Yemen on Tuesday, a provincial official said, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
A nearby school was also damaged in the attack targeting Houthi rebels inside the club in Radaa, a town in Baida province, US-based monitors SITE Intelligence Group said.
"Houthi fighters opened fire on the car before it attacked the club, causing it to explode at the gate, leading to the deaths and injuries," a security official said.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed the attack on the rebels, which it brands as 'Shia heretics'.
Late last month, a controversial US raid on a compound in the same province caught international headlines after an eight-year-old child, a US Navy Seal and dozens of suspected al-Qaeda militants and civilians were killed.
Both Yemen's al-Qaeda - described as the most dangerous branch of the franchise - and its militant IS rivals have exploited a power vacuum created by a conflict between the government and the rebels that escalated with a Saudi-led military intervention in March 2015.
More than 10,000 people have been killed since then, prompting human rights agencies to warn against an impending famine in what is described as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.