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| Yemen airstrike on al-Qaida hide-out, clash kill 6 |
| 2010-05-25 |
| An overnight government airstrike on what was believed to be an al-Qaida hide-out in a remote Yemen province accidentally killed a provincial councilman and his two bodyguards, a security official said Tuesday. Moonlighting or wrong place at wrong time? The incident sparked clashes between tribesmen protesting the deaths and police that claimed three more lives later Tuesday, a local Marib provincial official said. The security official said the strike late Monday night took place in the Wadi Obeida area in Marib province, about 107 miles (173 kilometers) south of the capital, San'a. The secretary-general of the Marib council, Sheikh Jabir bin al-Shabwani, and the two bodyguards were hit as they were driving home |
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