Source : Xinhua
ADEN, Yemen, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen killed a security officer in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout Monday night, a military official told Xinhua.
Two masked terrorists riding a motorbike intercepted the car carrying the security officer who was on his way home in Ghail Bawazir region in Hadramout province. They gunned him down before fleeing the scene, the local military official said on condition of anonymity.
The officer was pronounced dead shortly after he was sent to a nearby hospital, he added.
The attackers who managed to escape have not yet been identified, but such attacks, increasingly frequent recently, have in the past been carried out by al-Qaida militants.
In January 2009, al-Qaida affiliates in Saudi Arabia and Yemen officially merged and formed Al- Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP). The group, mainly entrenching itself in Yemen's southern provinces of Abyan and Shabwa, is on the terrorist list of the United States, which considers it as an increasing threat to its national security.
The AQAP underscores the challenges faced by Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who won support from major Yemeni political forces, the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Hadi is tasked with restoring security and stability to Yemen and putting an end to the growing influence of al-Qaida that threatens daily oil shipping routes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
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