(Al Jazeera) — Two suspected suicide bombers have died in an explosion outside an intelligence building in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, according to the country’s defence ministry.

The men killed in Friday’s blast in the al-Mansoura district were suspected of having links to al Qaeda, the defence ministry said on its website.

“Two suicide bombers belonging to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network were killed when their motorbike exploded… early on Friday in al-Mansoura,” it said, adding that the intended target of the attack was a branch of the political security services.

“The bomb-laden motorbike exploded with the two suicide bombers whose bodies were left in pieces before they managed to carry out their suicide attack that targetted a branch of the political security services in Mansura,” the website quoted a security official as saying.

(Bloomberg) — A man was killed while trying to plant a bomb on a petrol tanker in the north-central Nigerian city of Kaduna yesterday, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said.

“The bomb exploded with the man and killed him; he is the only person that died,” Lawan said by phone today from the city.

Authorities in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, blame Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group, for a surge of attacks since 2009 against government buildings and security forces in the mainly Muslim north and Abuja, the capital.

The group claimed responsibility for multiple blasts and attacks in the city of Kano on Jan. 20 that killed at least 256 people, according to the Civil Rights Congress. In February, a blast at a military checkpoint in Kaduna killed at least one person.

KABUL (AFP) — Officials say two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed 14 people, including a group of insurgents who were trying to rig an improvised bomb against Afghan and foreign forces.

Provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP that in the volatile Nawzad district of Helmand province a group of seven Taliban terrorists died while trying fit as pipe bomb on a vehicle on Monday.

“The explosive-packed pipe detonated killing a Taliban commander along with six of his fighters,” he said. On the same day, seven people, including six women, were killed in an explosion in Nawa district of the same province inside a house used by a local Taliban commander Mullah Manan, a senior security official said.

“We have intelligence that the Taliban commander was making bombs inside the house,” Mohammad Ismail Hotak told AFP.

(PressTV) — At least two Pakistani paramilitary troops have been killed and several others wounded in two separate attacks in northwestern Pakistan, where government troops are fighting militants, Press TV reports.

Local officials told Press TV that a patrol car used by the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers came under attack in the village of Nala, near Bara in the Khyber tribal region early on Saturday.

A paramilitary soldier was killed and five others wounded during the shootout.

Meanwhile, five militants were killed on Saturday when a bomb that they were preparing at their hideout in the Sarghar area of the Khyber tribal region exploded prematurely.

PAKISTAN — Two miscreants were killed when a remote control device went off on roadside in the wee hours on Sunday here at Zakhakhel area.

Political administration sources said that two miscreants were planting remote control device with a bridge in Zakhakhel area which went off prematurely while they were planting it.

Bodies of the militants were pierced into pieces by the powerful bomb which was destined to destroy the bridge. It was impossible to identify the militants because their bodies turned into pieces as a result of explosion, official sources said.

Official sources further said that it might be possible that security forces or other officials may be the target of militants who met their fate in the blast because Landi kotal-Torkhum is the main route leading to Afghanistan.

The area was cordoned off by the security forces to net the remaining insurgents in the area.