SANAA:Three Yemeni soldiers and two Al Qaeda militants were killed when security forces foiled an attack by insurgents in the eastern province of Hadramout yesterday, medical sources said.
The state news agency Saba said security forces had confronted Al Qaeda militants who had placed three car bombs in the Hadramout provincial capital of Al Mukallah. It said several militants were killed and several soldiers wounded.
“The fighters ... managed to destroy three car bombs in the Sitteen street in Al Mukallah before they reached their targets,” Saba said, quoting a military source. Ansar Al Sharia, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Yemen, claimed the attack on a Twitter account. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the authenticity of the account. The group said last week it killed 14 soldiers in an eastern province as revenge for an army offensive against its members. REUTERS
