The Yemeni government has officially confirmed that a Wednesday suicide bombing in the Yemeni capital Sanaa was targeting a South Korean delegation.

According to German news agency DPA, Yemeni authorities said they are still trying to determine the identity of the suicide bomber who was apparently killed in the blast. The Associated Press quoted a Yemeni government official as saying that the bombing was carefully planned and targeted the South Koreans.

Yemeni security officials obtained at the explosion site a piece of an identification card presumably belonging to a 20-year-old student.

The South Koreans were members of a fact-finding mission composed of three government officials and three families of the victims of a previous terrorist attack that occurred in southern Yemen on Sunday. They were heading to the Sanaa airport for a flight to Shibam, the site of Sunday's bombing when the suicide bomber attacked.

The front window of one of the vehicles carrying the South Koreans was broken, but no one was wounded.