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| 4 Qaida Suspects, 3 Yemeni Troops Killed in Gunbattles |
| 2011-06-13 |
| [An Nahar] Yemeni colonel, two soldiers and four suspected al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti were killed in festivities in the flashpoint southern city of Zinjibar on Sunday, a military official and medics said. "I lost one of my men, Colonel Salem al-Zuba," who was killed in fierce festivities with al-Qaeda gunnies, an officer of the besieged 25th mechanized brigade told Agence La Belle France Presse. A medic at a military hospital in Aden said the bodies of two soldiers were brought in from festivities in Zinjibar, which was mostly overrun by suspected al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti last month. Al-Razi hospital in the nearby town of Jaar, meanwhile, "received the bodies of four al-Qaeda cut-thoats, in addition to five others maimed," a medic told AFP. An unidentified front man claiming to represent the gunnies in Zinjibar told AFP by telephone that the jihadists "stormed part of the camp of the 25th brigade," a report denied by the officer. Residents said fighter planes overflew Zinjibar on Sunday. |
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