Sanaa: At least 21 people were killed and several others injured in renewed fighting between troops and al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen, media reported on Tuesday.
According to reports the fighting was going on in the southern city of Lawdar while militant also attack on a checkpoint in central Maarib province.
Eight soldiers and five militants were killed and four soldiers wounded when al Qaeda-linked gunmen in vehicles attacked an army checkpoint in Abar, 300 km (185 miles) east of the capital Sanaa, in Maarib province.
A local official said on Tuesday that among the militants killed in Lawdar were two Yemeni nationals wanted by the United States for their links to al Qaeda. Their names were Ali al-Barakani Mohamar and Adel Hardaba.
Ansar al-Sharia said on Monday claimed that it had captured four tanks and anti-aircraft guns and a large cache of arms and ammunition in fighting with government troops in Lawdar.
It also said in a statement that military officials had exaggerated when they said 40 militants had been killed in Monday’s fighting in Lawdar – but that its own fighters had killed 50 soldiers during the day.
In Lawdar, around 57 people were killed on Monday in clashes between government forces and Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) fighters, six militants and two tribal gunmen fighting alongside the army died in renewed clashes.
President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took over in February after a year of mass protests against his predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, is under pressure from Washington to fight the increasingly strong branch of al Qaeda in his country.
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