Qaeda militants killed five Yemeni security officials, including three senior officers, in an ambush in eastern province of Wadi Hadramut Tuesday, a local government official said. “Brigadier General Ali Salem Al-Ameri, security chief in Wadi Hadramut, and Ahmed Bawazeir, the head of state security in the area, and three security men were killed in an ambush,” the official said. The attack took place at 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) in the area of Khashm Al-Ein, in the district of Al-Abr, in the northwest of Hadramut. The five were traveling in a single car when they came under a hail of bullets, a witness who was in a car behind them said. Ameri, who was driving, swerved and collided with a lorry. “The car went up in flames. The bodies were charred,” he added. The men were returning from a visit to Wadayah, a border crossing into Saudi Arabia, said the witness, who was on the same trip. “It is believed that elements linked to Al-Qaeda were behind the operation as they are active in the area in which the attack took place,” the official said.
