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| A local news agency blamed the attack on ISIL |
Suicide bombers posing as Iftar distributors kill at least 38 Yemeni soldiers and injure 24 in Yemen's southeast.
A wave of suicide bombings has killed at least 38 Yemeni soldiers in the country's southeast, just as they were about to break their fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, local sources say.
Four bombings hit security checkpoints in the coastal city of Mukalla at sunset on Monday, the local news agency Mukalla Now said.
Fighters pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
According to the news agency, another 24 people, including women and children, were injured in the blasts, with the city's main Ibn Sina Hospital broadcasting urgent appeals for blood donations.
A local journalist, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera the attackers were posing as distributors for the fast-breaking meal, Iftar, and carried out the bombings while handing out food to troops who had spent the day fasting.