The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, San'a

A U.S. spokesman says the American Embassy in Yemen was hit by a car bomb and that there were unspecified casualties.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Ryan Gliha tells The Associated Press by telephone that there was a second explosion Wednesday that followed the initial one. He did not have figures for casualties or know their nationalities.

The embassy in Yemen has been the focus of violence in the past. The country is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden,

In March, three mortar rounds targeting the embassy crashed into a high school for girls next door, killing a Yemeni security guard and wounding more than a dozen girls.