Aden: At least five al-Qaeda militants detained for carrying out terrorist attacks escaped from a prison in the port city of Hudayda, Yemini interior ministry official said on Tuesday.
According to reports, speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official said that one of the detainees was believed to be a senior al-Qaida member who was involved in plotting an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa in 2008.
“Two other prisoners recruited militants for the group’s operations outside Yemen, and another was once detained in Syria after fighting with al-Qaida in Iraq,” he said.
The official said that the prisoners tunneled their way out of the prison.
He said that the ministry has started an investigation to determine who helped them to escape.
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