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ADEN, (APP/AFP) – Al-Qaeda militants,
including three suicide bombers who blew up vehicles, killed at least 13 Yemeni government troops outside the southeastern port city of Mukalla on Thursday, a military official said.
Several soldiers were also wounded in the attack on the eastern outskirts
of the Hadramawt provincial capital, which the army recaptured from Al-Qaeda
last month, ending a year of jihadist rule, the official said.
One suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the gate of
a base in the Khalf district, followed immediately by a second who blew up a
car in the centre of the camp, the official said.
Al-Qaeda militants clashed with soldiers outside the base immediately after
the bombings.
A third suicide bomber targeted the nearby residence of the commander of
Hadramawt’s second military region, General Faraj Salmeen, but he escaped
unharmed, the official said.
The commander of the province’s first military region, General Abdulrahman
al-Haleeli, survived a suicide bombing against his convoy on Wednesday that
killed four of his guards.