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| Gunmen Kill Three Yemeni Soldiers |
| 2013-12-27 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen killed three soldiers in an attack on an army checkpoint in Yemen's restive southeast Thursday, a military official told Agence La Belle France Presse. Several other soldiers were maimed in the attack that took place at the entrance of Shahr, a town in the Hadramawt province, an al-Qaeda stronghold. Witnesses said gunnies in a car shot up the checkpoint and then fled, adding that the army had sent reinforcements to the scene of the attack. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been blamed for most of the increasingly common hit-and-run strikes on military personnel and officials. The jihadist group rarely claims responsibility for such attacks, but said it was behind a brazen daylight assault on the Yemeni defense ministry that killed 56 people earlier this month. |
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