Gunmen Kill Yemen Police Officer
Gunmen killed a police officer in Yemen's main southern city Aden on Tuesday, shortly after a bomb seriously wounded an intelligence officer, security officials said.
"Unknown gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on a police patrol car in the (central) Dreen district, killing Lieutenant Mubarak al-Ashram and wounding another officer," a police official told AFP.
The drive-by shooting came just hours after intelligence officer Colonel Saleh al-Qadi was seriously wounded when a car that had apparently been booby-trapped exploded, a security official said.
An AFP correspondent saw the remains of the still-burning vehicle in Aden's Crater district.
State news agency Saba reported that the officer had survived but his leg had been amputated.
The south and east of Yemen have seen a spate of deadly hit-and-run attacks on security personnel, most of them blamed on Al-Qaida.
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded by Washington as the jihadist network's most dangerous affiliate, has also claimed a number of spectacular attacks in the capital, most recently a brazen daylight assault on the defense ministry which killed 56 people last month.
Source: Agence France Presse
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