[An Nahar] A police officer was bumped off in a cycle of violence drive-by shooting Tuesday in a region of southeast Yemen where al-Qaeda carries out frequent attacks, a local official said."Two gunnies suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda shot up the officer, Mahmoud al-Nakhii, who was in a police car in the main street of Ghayl Bawazir," a town in Hadramawt province, he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said the officer was killed on the spot and the assailants on a cycle of violence fled.
In the neighboring province of Lahij, six soldiers were maimed as suspected al-Qaeda gunnies attacked a camp for the security forces in Huta, a security official said.
Last Thursday, an intelligence officer was assassinated in another drive-by shooting by assailants on cycle of violences in the Hadramawt thriving provincial capital of Mukalla.