യെമനില്‍
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The death toll in three suicide car bombings that ripped through a key military site and police centre in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa Friday has risen to at least 65.'At least 65 army and security soldiers died and 38 others were wounded in three simultaneous car bombing attacks that targeted the police station headquarters and army-held sites in Azzan area in Shabwa,' a provincial security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.A police officer said that the deadliest of Friday's attacks took place when an Al Qaeda suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the army-held site in Azzan near an oil pipeline.
Medical officials in a nearby military hospital confirmed the casualty figures to Xinhua.
An earlier report Friday said that three explosives-rigged cars went off at a military site in Azzan, killing at least 40 soldiers and wounding dozens of others.An army source said that the security forces, backed by heavy armoured vehicles, have been deployed in large numbers around the scene.A witness told Xinhua that he 'saw a number of charred bodies near the police centre and the bodies of five high-ranking army officers brought out of it'.The bombs struck an army base and huge clouds of black smoke billowed into the air,' the witness added.The toll in the suicide attacks could rise as ambulances and civilian cars evacuated the victims to different hospitals and medical centres in the city, according to local sources.
A official in the security operations room in Shabwa told Xinhua that the troops killed in the army barracks were responsible for securing and protecting a nearby oil installation in the southern edge of the province. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for the bombings. An AQAP spokesman told Xinhua over the phone that it launched the attacks a few minutes after a US drone attacked a car carrying militants in the Eyen Ma'Bad area in Shabwa and killed all those on board.The Yemen-based AQAP, which emerged in January 2009, is considered the most strategic threat to the Yemeni government and its neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
The death toll in three suicide car bombings that ripped through a key military site and police centre in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa Friday has risen to at least 65.'At least 65 army and security soldiers died and 38 others were wounded in three simultaneous car bombing attacks that targeted the police station headquarters and army-held sites in Azzan area in Shabwa,' a provincial security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.A police officer said that the deadliest of Friday's attacks took place when an Al Qaeda suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the army-held site in Azzan near an oil pipeline.
Medical officials in a nearby military hospital confirmed the casualty figures to Xinhua.
An earlier report Friday said that three explosives-rigged cars went off at a military site in Azzan, killing at least 40 soldiers and wounding dozens of others.An army source said that the security forces, backed by heavy armoured vehicles, have been deployed in large numbers around the scene.A witness told Xinhua that he 'saw a number of charred bodies near the police centre and the bodies of five high-ranking army officers brought out of it'.The bombs struck an army base and huge clouds of black smoke billowed into the air,' the witness added.The toll in the suicide attacks could rise as ambulances and civilian cars evacuated the victims to different hospitals and medical centres in the city, according to local sources.
A official in the security operations room in Shabwa told Xinhua that the troops killed in the army barracks were responsible for securing and protecting a nearby oil installation in the southern edge of the province. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for the bombings. An AQAP spokesman told Xinhua over the phone that it launched the attacks a few minutes after a US drone attacked a car carrying militants in the Eyen Ma'Bad area in Shabwa and killed all those on board.The Yemen-based AQAP, which emerged in January 2009, is considered the most strategic threat to the Yemeni government and its neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
യെമനില്‍ അല്‍ ഖ്വായ്ദ നടത്തിയ മൂന്ന് ചാവേര്‍ സ്‌ഫോടനങ്ങളില്‍
സൈനികരും പോലീസുകാരും അടക്കം 56 പേര്‍ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു.അല്‍ ഖ്വായ്ദയുടെ
ശക്തികേന്ദ്രമായ തെക്കന്‍ യെമനിലാണ് സ്‌ഫോടനങ്ങള്‍ ഉണ്ടായത്. ഷബ്‌വ പ്രവിശ്യയില്‍
രണ്ട് സ്‌ഫോടനങ്ങളുണ്ടായി. ഇവിടെ എണ്ണപ്പാടങ്ങളുടെ സുരക്ഷാച്ചുമതല ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന
സൈനിക ക്യാമ്പിനു നേരെ നടത്തിയ ആക്രമണത്തില്‍ 38 സൈനികര്‍ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു.
ചാവേറുകള്‍ സ്‌ഫോടകവസ്തുക്കള്‍ നിറച്ച വാഹനം ക്യാമ്പിലേയ്ക്ക്
ഓടിച്ചുകയറ്റുകയായിരുന്നു. ഇവരെ ചെറുക്കാനുള്ള സൈനികരുടെ ശ്രമം വന്‍
ഏറ്റുമുട്ടലിലാണ് കലാശിച്ചത്.
ഇതിനു സമീപത്തെ അല്‍ നുഷൈമയില്‍ നടന്ന സമാനമായ ചാവേറാക്രമണത്തില്‍ പത്തു സൈനികരാണ്
കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടത്. സൈനിക ചെക്ക്‌പോസ്റ്റിലേയ്ക്ക് വാഹനം ഓടിച്ചുകയറ്റി സ്‌ഫോടനം
നടത്താനായിരുന്നു ശ്രമം. എന്നാല്‍ , സ്‌ഫോടകവസ്തുക്കള്‍ നിറച്ച വാഹനം ചെക്‌പോസ്റ്റിലെത്തും
മുന്‍പ് തന്നെ പൊട്ടിത്തെറിച്ചു.ഇവിടെ നിന്ന് പതിനഞ്ച് കിലോമീറ്റര്‍ അകലെയുള്ള
മൈഫയിലെ പ്രത്യേക പോലീസ് സേനയുടെ ക്യാമ്പിനുനേരെയാണ് മൂന്നാമത്തെ ആക്രമണമുണ്ടായത്.
അല്‍ ഖ്വായ്ദ തീവ്രവാദികള്‍ നടത്തിയ വെടിവെപ്പില്‍ എട്ട് പോലീസുകാര്‍
കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു.
ഷാബ്‌വ പ്രവിശ്യയില്‍ അല്‍ ഖ്വായ്ദക്കാരെന്നു സംശയിക്കുന്നവര്‍ സഞ്ചരിച്ച
വാഹനത്തിനു നേരെ അമേരിക്കയുടെ ആളില്ലാ വിമാനങ്ങള്‍ ആക്രമണം നടത്തിയതിന് തൊട്ടു
പിറകെയാണ് സൈനിക ക്യാമ്പുകള്‍ക്ക് നേരെ ചാവേറാക്രമണമുണ്ടായത്.
പ്രൊഫ്‌. ജോണ്‍ കുരാക്കാർ
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