Two suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bombers were killed Friday in Yemen’s main southern city of Aden when their payload exploded outside an intelligence bureau they were targeting,” the defense ministry said on its website.

“Two suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bombers were killed Friday in Yemen's main southern city of Aden when their payload exploded outside an intelligence bureau they were targeting,” the defense ministry said on its website.

According to AFP the ministry added that "two suicide bombers belonging to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network were killed when their motorbike exploded... early Friday in Mansura.”

"The bomb-laden motorbike exploded with the two suicide bombers whose bodies were left in pieces before they managed to carry out their suicide attack that targeted a branch of the political security services in Mansura," it quoted a security official as saying.

No other casualties were reported.

The news agency pointed out that “the ministry said the security services had identified one of the two men as Fawaz Al-Subaihi, who lived in the neighborhood, while an investigation was ongoing to identify the second.”

It quoted a witness in Mansura as saying that “Al-Subaihi owned a shop in the area and has no links to Al-Qaeda.”