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| Airstrike kills 5 militants in southern Yemen |
| 2011-08-20 |
| ADEN: A Yemeni jet bombed the southern coastal town of Shaqra shortly after militants took control of the area, killing at least five of them, a local government official said. In the raids staged on Thursday, the jet also attacked two sites where militants had gathered in the town of Zinjibar, the official told Reuters. He was unable to give details of casualties there. Shaqra fell to the militants on Wednesday, becoming the third Yemeni town they have seized following Jaar in Abyan province in March and Zinjibar, the provincial capital, in May. In a separate incident, 10 people — mostly women and children — were injured in an explosion at a clothes market in Al-Qatn in the southern Hadramout province on Thursday, which targeted an army officer and his family, a security official told Reuters. Eyewitnesses said they saw a man throwing a hand grenade who then fled in a car. The officer and his family survived unhurt, the official said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |