A drone air strike blasted two cars carrying suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen in the southern Yemen province of Shabawa on Thursday, killing five of them, a tribal chief and witnesses said. “Five militants belonging to Ansar Al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic law) were killed in a drone strike” in Shabwa, said the tribal chief. Witnesses said the drone fired four missiles at the two cars as they travelled through the town of Saeed in Shabwa, a stronghold of the militant group. “The two cars are still burning and we couldn’t get close to them because the drones are still hovering in the area,” said a local resident. The tribal chief said gunmen suspected to have links with Al-Qaeda had earlier arrived in four vehicles and “set up a checkpoint on the road linking Saeed and Ataq,” Shabwa’s provincial capital.
