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| Twenty soldiers killed in attack on Yemeni checkpoint |
| 2014-03-24 |
| Reports say that twenty Yemeni soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen. The state-run Saba news agency says the attack took place in Hadramawt province. Security sources earlier reported eight had died and six were injured in an attack that a source attributed to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. "Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint" near Reida, located 85 miles east of the provincial capital Mukalla, the state-run news agency said. One source said that the attack was carried out by gunmen in several vehicles. |
| Posted by:ryuge |