Monday, April 25, 2011

5 soldiers killed and 2 gunmen in an ambush in southern Yemen

Sana'a. .- At least five soldiers and two Yemeni tribesmen were killed in an ambush against a military convoy Lahech province, in southern Yemen, sources told Efe security services. The clash erupted after the attackers fired automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at the troops on a road in the area Yafe mountain, near the port city of Aden.

The attackers tried to take over, according to sources, food supplies and fuel that the convoy moved to a camp of the Republican Guard deployed in the mountains of Al Aar. For their part, several locals claimed that a military truck, a tank was destroyed and damaged during the attack. Last Friday, four soldiers were killed and nineteen others injured in a similar clash occurred in Marib province, northeast of Sanaa.

Yemeni tribesmen ambushed a patrol of the Republican Guard in a road used by trucks carrying gas, which connects the gas fields in Marib to the capital, Sanaa.

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