YEMEN Press Agency

US, UK troops participate in raiding several homes in Yemen’s Mahrah

MAHRAH, June 12 (YPA) – Local sources on Tuesday confirmed that a group of the US and British forces participated in storming several houses belonging to a number of citizens in Al-Ghaida district of Mahrah province eastern Yemen.

According to the sources, on the third of this month, a US-Saudi military team dressed in military uniforms raided several houses in Qatar’s al-Ghaydah neighborhood and arrested a group of citizens on charges of belonging to al-Qaeda.

The same sources explained that among the detainees are a group of women who were taken to the headquarters of the Saudi occupation forces in Al-Mahrah.

The raid was carried out under the protection of large military police forces led by Colonel Mohsen Marsa’a.

E.M