Second security official assassinated in 48 hours in Aden

ADEN, Dec. 4 (YPA) – Unknown gunmen killed a second security official in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, sources reported.

“Two gunmen on motorbike opened fire at Salem Lahtal, the head of the criminal investigation department in al-Arish police, as he passed near the Sunnah mosque in Khor Maksar district, ” according to the sources .

Major Lahtal was killed instantly, while the perpetrators fled the scene, one of the sources said.

The attack was the second of its kind in 48 hours, after the assassination of Major Salah al-Hujairi, director for the Criminal Investigation Department in Mansoura district by gunmen on Sunday in front of his home.

Local media reported that the latest incident was part of a series of assassinations targeting army and security leaders, preachers and imams of mosques over the past four years.

E.M