Al-Qaeda militants killed seven policemen Sunday in an attack on a checkpoint in Yemen’s southeast, a security official said, a day after clashes between the army and militants left 40 dead.
“A group of Al-Qaeda terrorists in two vehicles opened machinegun fire on a checkpoint, killing seven policemen” in Shibam, a town in the province of Hadramawt, the official told AFP.
Another security official told AFP that suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen riding a motorbike shot and wounded Colonel Abboud Fadhl, an intelligence officer, in the leg late Saturday in the southern province of Lahij.
