ADEN: Suspected Al Qaeda gunmen shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer yesterday in the southeastern city of Hadramawt, a security source said, in the second shooting in as many days.
“Two men on a motorcycle opened fire at intelligence officer Omar Mahfudh, killing him on the spot as he emerged from Al Qatn mosque,” the source said, adding Al Qaeda was behind the shooting.
On Thursday night, retired army colonel Abdel Magid Abdullah, 70, was killed in similar circumstances by gunmen who fled on a motorcycle in Huta, capital of the southern province of Lahj.
The shootings are the latest in a wave of almost daily attacks blamed on Al Qaeda in recent weeks against army and intelligence officers in southern
Yemen.
AFP
