'Qaida' Gunmen Kill Yemen Police Officer, Soldier

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Suspected al-Qaida gunmen killed a Yemeni police officer and a soldier in two separate attacks in the south of the strife-torn country, security sources said Friday.

"Two al-Qaida gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed commander Fadl al-Majidi on Thursday night in downtown Huta," capital of Lahij province, a security source told Agence France Presse.

The assailants were able to flee the scene.

Farther south in Mahfad, a town in Abyan province, gunmen fatally wounded a soldier in his barracks on Thursday night, said another security source who blamed al-Qaida.

Yemen has fallen deeper into turmoil since an uprising forced out autocratic president Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012 after a year of unrest, with rivals, including Shiite rebels and al-Qaida, battling each other.

al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, a merger of the jihadist network's Yemeni and Saudi branches, is seen by the United States as al-Qaida's deadliest offshoot.

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