[Yemen Post] At least 40 Al-Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons killed in Lawdar district of Abyan governorate on Tuesday after soldiers of the Brigade 111 in collaborations with residents strongly repelled the beturbanned goons who tried to storm the city, the Interior Ministry said in its website. According to 26 September website, the beturbanned goons beat feet to mountain surrounding the city, and that the Yemeni army along with newly public committees pursued them after they received painful blows.
Local sources said violent confrontations broke out on Tuesday, pointing out that the military destroyed a tank that was captured by Ansar Al-Shariah.
They confirmed that eight soldiers were killed when beturbanned goons could infiltrate to a building and sniped the soldiers.
Asnar Al-Shariah (Supporters of the Islamic law) had said in a statement that they captured on Monday four tanks, ammunitions and other weapons after festivities with the Yemeni soldiers in Lawdar. Ansar Al-Shairah have been controlling parts of the southern governorate of Abyan.
The United States and Soddy Arabia backed the power transfer in Yemen in an attempt to avoid the collapse of the country and plunge it into turmoil.
The Yemenis news Agency (Saba) stated that the Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmed praised on Tuesday the Brigade 111 and the public committees, and stressed that al Yemenis refuse fundamental ideologies and terrorism.
Yemen's president Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi faced external pressures to fight Al-Qaeda. He had vowed in his inauguration before Parliament late February that he will defeat Al-Qaeda.
Gunmen opened fire Tuesday on a checkpoint in Maarib province, about 300km east of the capital Sana'a, killing eight soldiers.