Location of Dhamar Governorate
Abdul Malik al-Houthi giving a televised speech on 3 January 2015
The 4 January 2015 Dhamar bombing was a terror attack carried out against a Houthis headquarters in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen, which killed 5 people and wounded 25.
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62 miles from Sana'a in Dhamar Governorate in Yemen, the Houthis set up a local headquarters in the region. On 4 January 2015, a few assailants set off an explosion that killed 5 Houthis and wounded 25 in an attack with unknown perpetrators and motives. Around the same time, an al-Qaeda assailant killed a Brigadier-General of the Yemeni Army in Shabwa Governorate.