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23 al-Qaida militants killed by Yemeni army | The Yemeni defense ministry said Tuesday
the army repelled an overnight attack by al-Qaida militants, killing 23 terrorists
in the southern province of Abyan . The government troops managed to foil an attack
by dozens of al- Qaida fighters, who attempted to sneak into an army base in the
suburb of Zinjibar, the capital city of Abyan , late on Monday night, the defense
ministry said in a brief statement posted on its website. The government soldiers
clashed with al-Qaida attackers, killing at least 23 al-Qaida militants, including
a Somali and a Pakistani, the defense ministry said. One soldier was killed and
another injured during the armed clashes, the ministry added. However, a spokesman
of the al-Qaida group told Xinhua anonymously that "our fighters attacked army
troops in Zinjibar late on Monday night, several soldiers were either killed or
injured," he said. On the same day, an army officer said that "army troops surrounded
early Tuesday an al-Qaida stronghold outside of Jaar town and pounded it with
heavy tank fire." There are no reports about casualties, he said. The Yemeni government
troops have waged an intensive military campaign, with support of the United States
and Saudi Arabia , against several bastions of the al-Qaida terrorist group in
Abyan province since last month. The offensive aimed at recapturing several southern
towns and cities seized by the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula during
last year's political chaos.
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