Saad's caravan was traveling to his office in a western district of Aden.

[1][2][3] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Yemen branch claimed responsibility for the car bomb.

The group stated that they detonated the bomb as Saad's convoy passed where the car was parked.

Photographs, supposedly of the attack, showed a burning, wrecked car.

[4][2] The Islamic State released a video under Aden-Abyan Province media, which the bombing was part of it.