Local Gunmen Attack STC Vehicle With Explosive Device, Two Killed and Four Wounded

Local Gunmen Attack STC Vehicle With Explosive Device, Two Killed and Four Wounded

At least two members of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia were killed and four others wounded on Thursday in an explosion in Abyan province, eastern Yemen.

Local sources in Abayn reported that unidentified gunmen targeted a vehicle belonging to the STC with an explosive device, leaving two dead and four injured in Al-Baqira area of Omran Valley in Mudiyah district.

This comes after the killing of the operations chief of the “Fifth Support Brigade,” Abdullah Saad Ba Rujaila, and the staff officer of the first battalion in the brigade, Abdulmajeed Al-Elyani, during the first week of February, when four explosive devices were detonated at the entrance to the Omran valley