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Gunmen kill five soldiers at Yemen checkpoint

By REUTERS

APRIL 8, 2014 16:30

ADEN/SANAA - Suspected militants killed five soldiers guarding a checkpoint in southeastern Yemen on Tuesday, local officials said, and a leader of a Shi'ite Muslim party was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the capital Sanaa in which two guards died.

The incidents underscored the volatility in Yemen more than two years after long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down following months of protests by Yemenis demanding democratic reforms.

Saleh's successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has been struggling to restore stability to the impoverished US-allied country of 25 million amid multiple challenges that include a rebellion by Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and al-Qaida-linked insurgents.

A security source said gunmen in two vehicles stormed the Buroum checkpoint on the border between Shabwa and Hadramout provinces with automatic fire and grenades, killing the five soldiers.

The attack was the third in two weeks in Hadramout. Last month suspected militants killed 20 members of Yemen's security forces in a raid on a checkpoint in Hadramout. Earlier this month, an officer and four soldiers were killed in the southeastern province.

Yemen is struggling to restore authority and one of the most active branches of al-Qaida has exploited the political turmoil.

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