 At least eight militants were killed in Yemen on Monday after they gunned down seven policemen in an ambush, the official Saba news agency reported. It said Yemeni security forces clashed with followers of slain anti-US cleric Hussein al-Houthi after the ambush in Saada province, 240 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa. Local sources said seven policemen and 10 militants died and that clashes were continuing. Houthi, leader of the Believing Youth group and a Zaidi Shia Muslim sect, was killed in September last year after two months of clashes with security forces in which over 200 militants and troops died. |