SANAA: A car bombing claimed by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) militant group killed four people near a Shia mosque in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Shia rebels said Tuesday.

Several children were also among eight people wounded in the Monday evening blast, the rebel-controlled Saba news agency said.

The IS group has carried out a string of deadly attacks against Shia targets in Yemen since March.

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The Houthi rebels, who overran Sanaa last September, also lost 11 fighters in other attacks in the capital overnight, medics and witnesses said.

Six were killed in a shooting at a checkpoint near the central bank. Five were killed in a car bombing against a police station in the Al-Hassaba district in the north of the city.

The attacks came as the rebels were driven out of the second city of Aden by a week-old offensive by loyalists of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.