Yemen's army killed six suspected Al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti in a Katyusha rocket attack on their hideout in the restive southern city of Zinjibar yesterday.Among the dead were a Saudi and an Algerian, said the official, adding the house in which they were hiding was completely demolished in the attack that took place late on Wednesday.
An army official meanwhile said that five soldiers were also maimed Wednesday in festivities in Zinjibar and were taken to a military hospital in the main southern city of Aden.
Nearly 270 Yemeni soldiers have been killed in the battles that began in May with Islamic fascisti from the Partisans of Sharia, the Al-Qaeda-linked orc group that took over most of Zinjibar, according to an army toll.