news.outlookindia.com | Yemen Intelligence HQ Attacked, 6 Security Men Killed
11 people, including at least 6 members of the security forces, were killed today in an attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in the southern port city of Aden, medics said.
A building housing the intelligence services in the Al-Tawahi district near the port came under fire at 0440 GMT, by a group of men armed with rocket-propelled grenades, grenades and machine guns, local officials told AFP.
During the attack, an unknown number of prisoners suspected of being members of Al-Qaeda were set free, the officials said on condition of anonymity, adding that the attack may have been the work of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Witnesses also said the assailants "were seen leaving the building, taking people who had been detained there with them."
Medics reported that one of the dead was a woman cleaner.
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, has witnessed numerous attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda on foreign missions, tourist sites and oil installations.
In October 2000, militants in an explosive-packed high-speed boat blew a hole in the side of American warship the USS Cole in Aden, killing 17 sailors.
Two years later, the French-registered 500,000-tonne supertanker Limburg was damaged by another bomb-laden boat, also attributed to Al-Qaeda, in the southeast port of Ash-Shir, east of Aden.
11 people, including at least 6 members of the security forces, were killed today in an attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in the southern port city of Aden, medics said.
A building housing the intelligence services in the Al-Tawahi district near the port came under fire at 0440 GMT, by a group of men armed with rocket-propelled grenades, grenades and machine guns, local officials told AFP.
During the attack, an unknown number of prisoners suspected of being members of Al-Qaeda were set free, the officials said on condition of anonymity, adding that the attack may have been the work of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Witnesses also said the assailants "were seen leaving the building, taking people who had been detained there with them."
Medics reported that one of the dead was a woman cleaner.
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, has witnessed numerous attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda on foreign missions, tourist sites and oil installations.
In October 2000, militants in an explosive-packed high-speed boat blew a hole in the side of American warship the USS Cole in Aden, killing 17 sailors.
Two years later, the French-registered 500,000-tonne supertanker Limburg was damaged by another bomb-laden boat, also attributed to Al-Qaeda, in the southeast port of Ash-Shir, east of Aden.
