ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer on Saturday in the southern province of Lahej, a local official told Reuters, in the latest of a series of attacks on military targets.

“The officer was in his car when he was shot by the militants carrying machine guns,” said the official, adding that the attack is suspected to be linked with Al-Qaeda.

The dead man, Col. Nasser Al-Issai, was the latest in a string of army and intelligence officers to have been killed in Yemen. So far more than 22 other senior officers have died this year.