[Yemen Post] A high-ranking military commander was killed Thursday in Marib governorate after he was seriously maimed during festivities with rustics who bombed an oil pipeline.Colonel Ali al-Asadi, commander of the Tank Battalion of the 312 Brigade and a number of soldiers were killed, and another colonel, Saleh al-Bokair, was maimed, military sources affirmed.
The sources affirmed that the gunnies shot an RPG shell on a vehicle carrying troops after a pipeline was attacked, pointing out that the festivities are still ongoing.
A number of Yemeni soldiers were previously killed by rustics in the restive government of Marib after the government directed to use force against those who assault oil pipelines and electricity installations.
Oil pipelines has been attacked on lately of Tuesday, a fourth attack since the begging of November.
Armed rustics, along with al-Qaeda Death Eaters, repeatedly target oil and gas facilities in attempts to blackmail or put pressures on the interim government.
Gas and oil pipelines are frequently attacked in the remote governorate of Marib and other areas amid allegations that remnants of the former regime are behind the attacks.
High-ranking Yemeni politicians including the head of the Joint Meeting Party, Sultan Al-Atwani, had accused the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
and his aides of blowing up oil and gas pipelines.
Yemen's electricity supplies have been damaged many times since the eruption of the eleven-month-old protests. Yemen have lost billions of rials as a result of recurring attacks.