Three Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others maimed in a roadside kabooming that targeted the convoy of a security chief in the southeastern city of Mukalla on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said. The bomb went off as a three-vehicle convoy passed through the Huwaysh neighbourhood of the coastal city, witnesses said.It targeted the convoy of Colonel Abdulwahab al-Waeli, head of Central Security in the city, the security official said. It was not clear who was behind the attack but Al-Qaeda remains active in the south and east of impoverished Yemen.
Al-Qaeda loyalists have carried out a spate of deadly attacks against security forces and their militia allies since President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi came to power earlier this year pledging to crush the hard boys.Al-Qaeda took advantage of a nearly year-long uprising against Hadi's predecessor, veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, to seize large swathes of the south and east.