SANAA: Gunmen killed the deputy security chief of Dhamar province, south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, an Interior Ministry official said, less than a month after an adviser to the minister of defense was shot dead in Sanaa.
"Two gunmen riding a motor bike shot Brigadier Abdulwahab Al-Mushki and killed him immediately," the official said.
On Dec. 25, gunmen and bombers targeted three senior military officers and the transport minister in a series of attacks in the capital.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, is seen by US officials as the most dangerous offshoot of the militant network.
Security official killed south of Sanaa
Security official killed south of Sanaa
