Yemen’s deputy information minister Abdul Janadi survived an assassination attempt early Thursday after unknown people had thrown a bomb at his home in the capital Sana’a.

Al-Janadi said the bomb exploded at his car parking shortly before he came back home. “No injuries happened and the authorities are investigating the incident,” he said.

Assassination attempts targeting senior, security and military officials, have increased in recent years in Yemen, gripped by six-month protests and severe crises. Most incidents took place in southern regions. 

President Saleh is currently convalescing in Saudi Arabia after he escaped an assassination attempt in his compound in June. The June blast burned d Saleh’s body, injured 87 senior officials and killed a dozen of his bodyguard. 

Separately, the Public Electricity Corporation’s office in the port city of Hodeida has that storms had led to the fall of 13 pylons in Bajil city. The pylons were of these carrying electricity from the Makha stream power station to the main conversion plant in Baji which then supplies electric power to Sana’a and Dhamar provinces.

The thunderstorms affected an area of 4 square kilometers and technical teams are now assessing damages to fix them, the office said, at a time when Yemeni cities including the capacity are experiencing long blackouts. 

In Aden, massive demonstrations were organized on Thursday amid very long power outages that started on Wednesday.