3 Security Killed in Ambush
Earlier, child kidnap hostage freed from tribesmen after gunfight, see update.
Redux: from The New York Times:
Gunmen ambushed a government motorcade in the eastern Yemeni province of Hadramawt on Tuesday, killing three top provincial officials and three guards in an attack that had all the hallmarks of Al Qaeda’s regional arm….The officials killed Tuesday were the chief of the Political Security Organization for Hadramawt Province; the regional security chief; and the head of the regional criminal investigation division, according to a statement issued by Mohammad al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington.
The assailants opened fire on the motorcade’s lead vehicle as it passed through the town of Kashm Alein in the Alabr district, causing the vehicle to collide with an oncoming truck in the opposite lane and burst into flames, the statement said. The gunmen fled the scene in two cars.
HADRAMOUT, Nov 4 (Bernama) — Five policemen were killed on Tuesday when gunmen ambushed two cars carrying them in Yemen’s eastern province of Hadramout, the state-run 26sep.net reported.
Citing the report in the Arabic website, Yemen news agency (Saba) reported that those killed included two officers identified as the police chief in the Hadramout Wadi Ahmed Salim Al-Amri and head of the Political Security Office in Sayoon city and two of their guards as well as head of the Criminal Investigative Department in the Qaten district.
The cars came under a hail of bullets while they were on their way back from a border crossing trip. Amid the attack the cars collided with a truck passing in the road and were entirely burned.
The bodies were badly burnt as well. A hunt was launched for the perpetrators.
None has been blamed nor claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
On the other hand, an officer has been killed as police released a child who was snatched by tribesmen in Hadramout.
Security sources said some people of the Al Fegas tribe took Mohammed Abdullah Sheikh al-Shatri in the district of Hegr.
Security patrols were dispatched to release the child and as they arrived in the area they came under a shower of bullets by the kidnappers with Major. Mohamed Saleh Soroor killed.
Police surrounded the area, released the child and arrested some of the suspects.
