The incidents began in Sheikh Othman district , when on January 6 , unidentified gunmen shot dead a colonel of Aden 's criminal investigation office , inside into his car . On January 31 , the body of a top Salafi cleric in the Sheikh Othman district , founded dead and tortured . The cleric was abducted some days before by militant groups . The cleric , named Samahan Abdel-Aziz , was very influential in the side of Hadi loyalists , rejecting AQAP , ISIL and Houthis in his speeches . No group claimed responsibility for the killing . On 29 February , a suspected ISIL suicide bomber explode himself outside of a military checkpoint , killing four and wounding seven Hadi loyalists , in the al-Mimdara neighborhood in Sheikh Othman . On 4 March , ISIL gunmen stormed an Elderly house care home run by Christian volunteers , and killed 1 guard , 11 residents of the house and four Indian Christian nuns . 1 Indian priest inside the home , kidnapped and is believed to executed some weeks after . His agency claims that the priest is not executed and is still alive . Pope Francis goddamned the attack , saying that was a diabolic action of mass murder . On April 29 , gunmen on motorbikes assassinated the senior security officer of Aden , Colonel Marwan Abdulalim , when he was traveling in his car in Sheikh Othman district
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Missionaries of Charity attack in Aden
Aden unrest (2015–present)