.- A total of eleven soldiers were killed in Yemen and another twenty were wounded in three separate attacks, two of them launched by suspected members of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, officials said. The police chief in the central province of Marib, Mohamed Mansour, said the alleged terrorists ambushed a convoy of an infantry brigade in charge of guarding oil fields in the region.
The source added that the raiding party, "in a criminal cowardly act", riddled with bullets to the seven members of the military convoy, who died in the ambush. Moreover, four armed men are also suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda attacked soldiers guarding a post office in the province of Abyan and killed one and wounded another, police said.
Al Qaeda in Yemen has established its base of operations for the Arabian Peninsula and has training camps in this country. Finally, three soldiers were killed and nineteen were injured when they ambushed a patrol of the Republican Guard by tribesmen on a road used by trucks transporting gas in the province of Marib.
The tribe had previously threatened to attack transport that use this road, which connects the gas fields in Marib to the capital, Sanaa. 
The source added that the raiding party, "in a criminal cowardly act", riddled with bullets to the seven members of the military convoy, who died in the ambush. Moreover, four armed men are also suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda attacked soldiers guarding a post office in the province of Abyan and killed one and wounded another, police said.
Al Qaeda in Yemen has established its base of operations for the Arabian Peninsula and has training camps in this country. Finally, three soldiers were killed and nineteen were injured when they ambushed a patrol of the Republican Guard by tribesmen on a road used by trucks transporting gas in the province of Marib.
The tribe had previously threatened to attack transport that use this road, which connects the gas fields in Marib to the capital, Sanaa.
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