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| Troops 'Easy Target' in Violence-Rocked South | |
| 2011-01-09 | |
About three armed separatists broke into the military camp in the Milah district and opened heavy fire on soldiers killing and injuring five of them, the official said. Two of the attackers were maimed when troops returned fire, the official added. Milah is near the Habilain district where volatile confrontations between the forces and armed separatists continue to erupt. In the last few weeks, military reinforcements were deployed to some areas in Lahj to control the situation as the separatist movement, Harak, is escalating protest and violence. Also, today's attack coincided with the withdrawal of military armored cars from some areas in Lahj including Milah district, according to local sources. In Aden, four people were maimed when festivities erupted between the security forces and protestors who erupted into the streets demanding the release of 10 people in police custody for more than a week. Protestors seized three cars of water, sanitary and electricity authorities to show their anger over what they called an arbitrary arrest of the detainees, whose arrest, according to local sources, took place when the police dispersed a rally in the city. When the police tried to disperse the rally and recover the cars, festivities started leading to the casualties, local sources said. All this comes amid rising violence in the south, where suspected Al-Qaeda attacks and separatist bully boyz are targeting military commanders, coppers and local officials as well as military and security convoys and patrols. On Friday, more than a dozen troops were killed and several others injured in two ambushes by suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies against the convoy of a military commander and a military supply convoy in the Lowder district, Abyan. The police also defused today a bomb that was put inside the car of director of Abyan Criminal Investigative Department. The bomb was found by children who were playing near the car. In Hadramout, a military commander survived an attack early on Saturday morning after unknown attackers had planted an bomb on a road which went kaboom!when the commander passed there. | |
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