Al Qaeda blamed for U.S. Embassy attack (Yemen)

(CNN) -- Suspected Al Qaeda disguised as security forces launched an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa Wednesday killing 10 Yemeni police and civilians, officials said.

The attack involved two car bombs, a spokesman for Yemen's embassy in Washington said. Six attackers, including a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest, were also killed in the attack, Mohammed al-Basha said.

Senior State Department officials said no U.S. Embassy employees were killed in blasts, which witnesses said created a fireball that shook nearby buildings.

The heavily-fortified compound in the capital of Yemen -- the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- has previously been targeted in attacks.

The U.S. official told CNN that the attackers initially opened fire outside the embassy's security gate, then there was the main explosion followed by a secondary explosion.

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