Source: Yemen Observer www.yobserver.com
A pro-government militia man died an hour ago after being
targeted along with other members by al-Qaeda suicide bomber earlier today in
the southern province of Abyan.
The suicide bomber targeted a group of pro-government
militia in the morning but mist the militia leader in the district of Lawdar,
Abyan province in south Yemen, a local source said.
Saleh al-Agdal, a local from Lawdar district, said that
al-Masoodi died in a hospital in Aden city, south Yemen. He said another member
is unlikely to survive whlile the third one is stable.
The suicide bomber was waiting for the pro-government
leader, Muhammed Aidarous, but he was already in office when the bomber
resorted to targeting a car carrying members of the militia, said al-Agdal.
Al-Agdal said three of the targeted people were taken to
Aden as they were seriously injured. The other four, the source said, are now
in the local hospital in Lawdar. “So far,” al-Agdal said, “no one has died and
Aidarous is fine.”
Aidarous has escaped three assassination attempts before.
The pro-government militias, known as the Popular Committees, have joined the
government army in its fight against al-Qaeda militants in the restive province
in Abyan.
The militants attacked earlier in the month the leader of
the militia in Ja’ar district but he escaped the assassination and suffered
severe injury.
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