[Yemen Post] At least three citizens were killed and seven others injured in an air strike that targeted the house of Deputy Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Shadadi in Yemen's southern Abyan province on Tuesday.Al-Shadadi defected from the ruling party and announced support to the popular youth-led uprising, and then formed along with other defected MPS from various parliamentary blocs a coalition of 115 MPs.
Military sources were quoted by alsahwa-yemen.net as saying that the airsrike targeted suspected Al-Qaeda hard boyz stationed near the house in Zinjbar, as the army continued to battle Islamists who have fiercely fought back and have taken over more areas in Abyan.
Furthermore, a citizen was killed and two others injured when the army targeted a suspected Al-Qaeda position near Al-Razi hospital in Zinjbar.
Eyewitnesses were quoted as saying that the house of Al-Shadadi and one of his relatives were attacked and those injured were at death's door.
At least six Al-Qaeda suspects or Sharia supporters were killed in
The past few days, tens of soldiers and Islamists were killed in several parts of Abyan, with Al-Wahda stadium as one of the main battlefields where rotten bodies were seen in large numbers.