Sanaa: Al-Qaeda militants and armed Tribesmen have killed at least 22 soldiers and captured dozens of others in separate attacks, security and tribal sources said on Friday.
“Al-Qaeda militants ambushed a military patrol near Safer (oil fields), in (the eastern province of) Marib, killing 11 soldiers,” a security official in Sanaa said. The assailants used machine-guns in Friday’s attack.
Also in Marib, two soldiers were killed, two wounded and 30 taken prisoner in a clash with tribesmen, said another security official and a tribal source. Six tribesmen were also wounded.
The tribesmen, armed with anti-aircraft guns, attacked a military convoy trying to open the main Sanaa-Marib road, which the tribes have blocked in protest at local grievances.
Security officials later said unknown gunmen on Friday shot dead a soldier in the restless southern province of Abyan, an Al-Qaeda stronghold, raising the army’s death toll to 20.
On Thursday, a fierce clash between armed tribesmen and troops of Yemen’s elite Republican Guard in the southern province of Lahij left at least six soldiers and two tribesmen dead, security officials said.
The clashes broke out over the army’s refusal to redeploy a Republican Guard unit from the mountain village of Labus, according to tribal sources.
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