‘Al Qaeda’ attacks kill at least 10 Yemeni police — officials

By AFP - Oct 08,2014 - Last updated at Oct 08,2014

SANAA — Suspected Al Qaeda militants, including a suicide bomber, killed at least 10 Yemeni police Wednesday in attacks on security forces in the restive country, officials said.

The wave of violence in the central town of Baida targeted a command centre, a police post and an army checkpoint.

Nine police were killed in the suicide car bombing alone, an official at Al Thawra hospital told AFP.

That attack, against the command centre, was thought to have been carried out by a militant identified as Abu Dujana Al Lahji, said a security official in the region.

It came shortly after a meeting of tribal chiefs — some of them with links to Al Qaeda — who decided to "respond to the increased presence of Shiite Huthi rebels in Baida," the official added.

The heads of the Sunni Muslim tribes believe that members of the security services in Baida are sympathetic to the Houthis, who overran the capital Sanaa on September 21 and have since taken control of other parts of Yemen.

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