Qaeda bombing kills 8 Hadi loyalists in Yemen's Hadhramaut
Eight people have been killed in a bomb attack carried out by al-Qaeda militants on a convoy of forces loyal to Yemen’s resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in Hadhramaut Province.
Local sources said the assault was carried out Wednesday near the town of Qatn as the top military commander in the area was travelling with his convoy toward a camp between Qatn and the nearby town of Sayoum. Seventeen people were also injured.
Six guards of General Abdul-Rahman al-Halili and two civilians were killed, the sources said. The wounded were mostly from the guards. Halili suffered minor injuries in the incident.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but similar assassination attempts have been made over the past months by militants of Yemen’s al-Qaeda against pro-Hadi military commanders.
The provincial capital of Hadhramaut, Mukalla, slipped into the hands of al-Qaeda since fighting began two years ago between the Hadi loyalists and Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters.
Many say al-Qaeda militants also enjoy support from Saudi Arabia as there have been numerous reports of airdrop by Saudi jets of ammunition to areas under the control of the militants, especially in areas where it could launch attacks against Houthis.
The Houthis are still in control of much of Yemen despite more than a year of Saudi airstrikes and ground operations. Numerous attempts by the United Nations for clinching a deal between Houthis and the pro-Hadi camp have failed. Estimates show that the illegal campaign by the regime in Riyadh has claimed the lives of more than 9,500 people across the impoverished Yemen since March 26, 2015.
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