Three soldiers were killed and seven wounded in an attack by tribesmen on a convoy of security forces in southern Yemen on Wednesday, police sources said. Armed tribesmen ambushed the convoy in a mountainous area in Taiz province, some 250 kilometres south-eastern the capital Sana'a, the sources said. They said the attackers belonged to the Qaisi clan, whose tribal leader Abdul-Salam al-Qaisi, was killed in an unexplained shooting by a police patrol in October.
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"I just can't explain it." | Eight policemen involved in the shooting were put on trial. On December 5, a first instance court sentenced three policemen to death and gave five others jail terms ranging from one to five years after it condemned them in al-Qaisi's killing. Clashes between tribesmen and security forces happen frequently in this impoverished Arabian Peninsula country, where men carry firearms openly in rural areas. |