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Yemeni security apparatuses identify fourth corpse of Al-Qaeda elements
(KUNA) -- Yemeni law enforcement agencies said Friday evening that they could unveil the identity of the fourth corpse of Al-Qaeda elements who managed to escape from Al-Mukalla prison in the eastern governorate of Hadhramaut on June 22.The Ministry of Defense said, in a statement published on its website, it has identified the corpse which had been found at Al-Ghalila area, noting the dead person name was Wajdi Al-Marfadi, and the body was remanded in jug pending further investigations. The Ministry of Interior said earlier that, "63 of Al-Qaeda elements who were imprisoned at Al-Mukalla jail with varying prison terms against some of them, along with others who were still standing for trial, have beat feet through digging a 35-meter tunnel, then they killed a prison guard." It added that, "security bodies tracked the escapees, and consquently two of them have been nabbed, while three others have been killed after resisting the security forces, their names are Sultan Ali Suleiman, Said Nayef Bin Sankar, and Rawi Haman Bin Salem Bin Saad Al-Sairi who had death sentences against them on Tarim terror cell." It also noted that, "Director of the Al-Mukalla Central Jail has been suspended from work along with his deputy and number of police personnel pending further investigations into the jailbreak." The preliminary interrogations which have been conducted with those who were incarcerated of the escapee inmates pointed out that, "they dug a 35-meter tunnel inside one of the prison wards," the ministry said, noting that, "the digging process took some 25 days." Taking a different tack, press sources said that a woman has been killed along with her baby during the artillery bombardment this evening on Arhab district, northern of the capital city of Sanaa. The same website said that one the houses at "Salman" village has been subjected to bombing in what caused the death the woman along with her one-year child. The artillery bombardment renewed this noon against some villages of the Arhab district by the brigades of the Republican Guard stationed there. Arhab tribe called on Yemeni Vice-President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, who currently carries out the President's tasks, to stymie the Republican Guard attacks which badly affected their villages, and caused the death of 20 persons, and the injury of 64 others with thirty two of them being badly maimed, besides the kidnapping of 16 persons. Posted by: Fred 2011-07-02 |
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