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7 Injured in Bomb Explosion, 8 Die in Landslide in Yemen
[Yemen Post] Seven civilians were maimed in a bomb kaboom in Yemen's southern Abyan...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province where the army drove Al-Qaeda cut-throats out of their strongholds earlier this year, Almasdar Online reported on Saturday. The bomb was believed to be of the explosive remnants of the war between the army and Al-Qaeda cut-throats in Al-Mahfad district, the website quoted local sources as saying. "The seven, one of whom was maimed, planned to sell the bomb to a scrap store but it went kaboom!before they could do," the sources said. Scores of civilians and soldiers have been killed since the authorities started returning the refugees who fled the war to their areas in Abyan province. The deaths occurred due to the kabooms of war remnants. Separately, eight members of a household died on Friday after their home collapsed on them due to a landslide that was caused by heavy rain in Yemen's southern Taiz province. Local security sources said the heavy rain lashed Taiz for more than an hour leading to the collapse of a wall adjacent to the old styled house of the family in Al-Mudhafar district. "The wall collapsed on the house killing the eight members, who were inside, and injuring another," the sources said. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-07 |
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