Yemen: 6 policeman killed in al-Qaida attack

SANAA, 14th May: At least six Yemeni policemen were killed and another one wounded on Saturday in an al-Qaida attack in southern province of Al-Bayda, a local security official said.

The attack targeted the policemen security checkpoint in Lamsan district in Radaa town of Al-Bayda, the official told Xinhua News on condition of anonymity.

"Following the attack, the al-Qaida militants seized the policemen's weapons and two security vehicles then fled," the official added without elaborating further.

Yemen: 7 soldiers, 3 police killed

SANAA, 13th May: Suspected al-Qaida militants killed seven soldiers in two separated attacks on Friday in Yemen's troubled provinces of Marib and Shabwa, local security officials said.

In Marib, militants killed four soldiers and injured several others in an ambush on a military convoy in Sarwah district, a local official said.

Elsewhere in the southern province of Shabwa, another group of suspected al-Qaida militants attacked a security checkpoint in Baihan district on Friday, killing three policemen and injuring another one, a local police official said.

3 killed as Yemen accepts Gulf plan

Yemen's opposition has decided to be part of a transitional government under a Gulf-brokered plan for president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, an opposition source told Reuters. According to the plan, Saleh will stay in power for a further 30 days before quitting, and the opposition had earlier said it would stay out of a unity government.

As opposition leaders gathered in Sanaa to discuss the proposal, Yemeni forces killed three protesters at rallies outside the capital, witnesses said. In the city of Taez, witnesses said security men opened fire on protesters. A woman watching the clash from her balcony was shot dead, and medical sources said 25 others were shot and injured in this southern town.

Clashes reported also in the town of Ibb, where one protester was shot dead and a dozen were hurt by live bullets as police tried to break up a march, witnesses said. Security forces also shot dead a protester in the southern province of al-Baida.

source: Al Bawaba News