ADEN: A suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber killed three Yemeni soldiers and wounded nine others in an attack Tuesday on an army position in the country’s south, military officials said.
The assailant used an explosives-rigged car to target the troops loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi who had recently set up the position in the town of Loder in Abyan province in their fight against the militants, the officials said.
Yemeni special forces, trained by the UAE and backed by the US, on Wednesday launched a major operation against the Al-Qaeda fighters, driving them out of Shabwa province.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition denied on Tuesday that it had targeted a home, after a health official alleged that nine civilians were killed in an airstrike.
Three women and six children were killed on Friday in the northwestern Saada province in an airstrike on their home, the head of the local health department, Dr. Abdel Ilah Al-Azzi, said.
“Col. Turki Al-Malki, official spokesman for the coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen, denied that coalition forces targeted a house in the Muhaddah area southwest of Saada,” it said in a statement posted on the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Al-Malki said the coalition was coordinating with its allies in Yemen’s government to investigate the incident and accused the Houthi movement of using civilian infrastructure to store weapons.
Al-Qaeda bomber kills 3 Yemen soldiers
Al-Qaeda bomber kills 3 Yemen soldiers
