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| Top Yemeni commander escapes assassination |
| 2016-05-12 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A top Yemeni commander escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide car bomber in southern Yemen on Wednesday, in an attack that also killed three people and injured others, a military statement and security officials said. The officials say that the bomber targeted Maj. Gen. Abdel-Rahman al-Halili, the commander of the First Army District in the province of Hadramawt. He was heading to a camp located between the towns of Qatn and Sayoum. They said that he was injured in the head by shrapnel. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but al-Hilali has been targeted by al-Qaida previously in failed assassination attempts. |
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