{"id":713,"date":"2010-08-29T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-08-29T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T13:18:53","slug":"nine-soldiers-killed-in-south-yemen-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/08\/29\/713\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine soldiers killed in south Yemen attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"yemen-troops\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/yemen-troops.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"202\" \/>SANAA (Agencies) Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda militants on an army post in the southern province of Abyan and another was killed in an ambush in the province of Lahij, a security official told AFP.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The soldiers were breaking the (Muslim Ramadan) fast when four armed militants attacked them using RPG (rocket-propelled grenades)&#8230; and machine guns,&#8221; the official said.<br \/>Seven of the soldiers were killed on the spot while the eighth one was wounded and later died of his injuries at the hospital, the official added.<br \/>Another soldier was killed three others were wounded in an ambush in the southern province of Lahij, the defense ministry&#8217;s news website reported.<br \/>&#8220;Armed outlaw elements&#8230; opened fire on members of a patrol killing the soldier Bilal Hael&#8221; and wounding three others late on Friday, 26sep.net quoted security official Lieutenant Colonel Salah al-Dawoodi as saying.<br \/>A committee was set up to investigate the incident, Dawoodi said.<br \/>On Tuesday, gunmen shot dead four policemen and wounded two others in a similar ambush in Zinjibar, in neighbouring Abyan province, a security source had said.<br \/>Earlier this month, armed men ambushed the chief of the Lahij intelligence service&#8217;s investigations department, who was killed in a hail of bullets.<br \/>South Yemen, where many residents complain of discrimination by the Sanaa government in the allocation of resources, is the site of frequent protests and periodic unrest.<br \/>The region is also feared to have become a base for al-Qaeda militants to regroup under the network&#8217;s local franchise, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.<br \/>Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent regional arm of al-Qaeda which has increased attacks on Western and regional targets in the poverty-stricken Arabian Peninsula state.abia.<br \/>It faces pressure to resolve domestic conflicts consuming its resources, including cementing a truce with Shiite rebels to end a civil war in the north that has raged on and off since 2004, and ending a separatist insurrection in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AlArabiya.net<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA (Agencies) Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda militants on an army post in the southern province of Abyan and another was killed in an ambush in the province of Lahij, a security official told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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