IS car bomb kills 4 near mosque in Yemen

A car bombing allegedly claimed by the Islamic State group near a mosque in Yemen's rebel-held capital killed four people Wednesday, medical sources and witnesses said.

An IS Twitter user calling himself Karar al-Moayad said the group had carried out the attack and that it had caused "several dead".

Witnesses said the blast went off near a mosque of the Bohra sect of Shia Islam, not far from Ath-Thawra Hospital in the Rammah district of Sanaa, where several attacks claimed by IS have targeted Shia rebels.

Another four people were wounded, a medical source told AFP, raising an earlier toll of two killed to four.

Four people were also killed in a similar explosion on July 21, according to a toll provided by the Houthis who control large parts of Yemen.

IS bomb attacks targeting several Shia mosques in the capital on March 21 killed 142 people.