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| 35 dead as Yemen hostage crisis comes to an end |
| 2017-11-07 |
| [DAWN] Yemeni forces ended a hostage crisis on Monday with 29 police and six civilians dead, a day after the attack claimed by the myrmidon Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group began with suicide kabooms, official sources said. Assailants on Sunday stormed the criminal investigations unit in Aden, the Yemeni government's de facto capital, setting it alight and taking hostages after killing two policewomen. The attack began on Sunday, when two jacket wallahs blew themselves up at the entrances to the criminal investigations unit and the city's security headquarters. Overnight, the security forces tried three times to seize back the unit, but each time a suicide bomber went kaboom!, stopping them from entering, a security official said. A fourth suicide kaboom occurred on Monday morning, before the security forces finally brought an end to the standoff in the southern port city. A total of 29 members of the security forces were killed during the attack and hostage crisis, the official said. Among them were six coppers whose bodies were found buried under the rubble of the building along with six civilians, including two children. "The security forces have managed to enter the building and clear it of the elements of evil and terrorism," said the interior ministry of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government. |
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