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29 March 2024

Yemen policeman shot dead in south

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By AFP

Unknown assailants have shot dead a Yemeni policeman and wounded four others in the country's south, a security official said on Wednesday, the fourth such attack in less than a week.

"The gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint killing one policeman and wounding four others," late Tuesday in the city of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, an Al Qaeda stronghold, the official told AFP.

On March 4, gunmen killed a senior police official in the southeastern province of Hadramawt while the following day unknown assailants shot and wounded a police chief travelling between Aden and the nearby province of Lahij.

Two other policemen were wounded on Saturday when roadside bombs planted in their camp exploded.

On Sunday, a massive assault on a Yemeni military base in Abyan province blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 185 soldiers.