Yemeni authorities arrested 19 people suspected of being connected to al-Qaida and having links to Wednesday's attack on heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa, the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV reported Thursday.
The report said that the United States had closed its embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa after the attack, but it was unclear that whether the closure was temporary or permanent.
On Wednesday, two explosions went off near the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, killing 16 people including six attackers. The embassy building has been unscathed with no casualties of the embassy workers.
A radical group calling itself the Islamic Jihad in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack, although the authenticity of the claim could not be immediately verified.
Source: Xinhua
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