A Yemeni security official says suspected Al-Qaeda militants have killed a security officer and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the
country’s southeast.
The official said two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at Col Mohammed Abdullah al-Habshi’s car on Friday night in Sayoun, a city in Hadramawt province.
His driver died instantly and the colonel died three hours later in hospital, the official said on condition of anonymity according to regulations.
Yemen is fighting a war against Al-Qaeda’s local branch, considered by Washington to be one of the world’s most dangerous offshoots of the terror network.
