Alwaght- Five roadside bombs have gone off in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, leaving eight members of the Ansarullah movement wounded, Press TV reported .
According to the Yemeni Ministry of Defense, the bombs targeted Ansarullah's checkpoints and some houses early on Monday while two other devices were dismantled .
The injured were taken to hospital and three of them are in a critical condition .
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but the attacks bear the hallmarks of a branch of the al-Qaeda militant group in Yemen .
The militants on December 3 claimed a car bomb attack on the residence of the Iranian ambassador to Yemen in a statement published on their Twitter account .
Al-Qaeda militants frequently carry out bomb attacks in Yemen and have been locked in deadly battles with Ansarullah fighters .
AL-Qaeda-linked violence against Yemeni security forces has also been growing since February 2012, when President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi came to power in a one-man election backed by Saudi and America .
Yemen’s central government has so far failed to confront the terrorist threat. Shiite Ansarullah fighters, however, have intervened to fill the vacuum and have driven al-Qaeda militants out of many areas in the country .
Meanwhile, in a separate development on Monday, media reports said that Yemeni President Hadi has sacked his armed forces chief of staff .
No reason was given for his sacking Ahmed Ali al-Ashouel on Sunday who was replaced by General Hussein Naji Hadi Khairan .
