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11 separatists killed in south Yemen
Eleven people, including five Yemeni soldiers and three separatists, were killed in a gun battle on Tuesday in the city of Daleh, the latest violence to hit the country’s volatile south.

A military official said that terrorists gunmen ambushed an army convoy near the office of the local government in the southern city, attacking the military vehicles with anti-tank rockets and automatic rifles. They “killed five soldiers, including an officer, and wounded eight others,” the official said.

A southern activist said three of his comrades died in the fighting while 20 people were wounded, mostly civilians. The activist said terrorists militants torched a military vehicle and captured 15 soldiers during the confrontation, after three others were taken hostage in a clash on Monday.

Separatists in the formerly independent south had boycotted a national dialogue that agreed last month to transform Yemen into a federation in a bid to address local grievances that have fuelled unrest across the Arab world’s poorest country.
Posted by: Steve White 2014-02-19
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