Sanaa: At least six local militia men were killed and eight others wounded after gunmen, one of them a suicide bomber, attacked a check-post in the Yemen’s south, media reported on Tuesday.
According to a local security official, the shooting and suicide bombing left six dead and eight wounded.
The militants driving a car opened fire on a checkpoint in the town of the Popular Resistance Committees, which backs up the army in its fight against the jihadists, wounding two militiamen, a militia commander said.
They then drove the car through the checkpoint and some of the militants fled. The car then exploded as militiamen approached it, and the body of the bomber was later found inside, the commander said.
The committees have recently become a target for Al-Qaeda militants who were forced to flee Abyan in June following battles led by the army, with the local militiamen backing them up.
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