Update: Pro-UAE commander killed in Dhalea

DHALEA, Jan. 21 (YPA) – A commander in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia was killed in Dhalea province, southern Yemen, local sources reported on Tuesday.

Walid Saif Sukra, commander of the so called 1st Resistance Brigade in Dhalea province, was killed Monday evening in an armed ambush led by the commander of one of the brigades.

Military sources told ” Almawqea post”, a pro-coalition media website, ” that the commander of a battalion in the brigade called Shalal al-Damina ambushed  the Sukra in the Naqel al-Rabaa on the main road linking Radfan and Dhalea province, targeting, a pro-UAE commander, Walid Saif Sukra.

According to the sources, a dispute broke out between the two sides over an armoured vehicle, from the brigade’s mechanisms.

Earlier, the commander of the so-called “First Brigade resistance” in the STC militias Walid Saif Sukra, was seriously injured in the head, when his car came under heavy gunfire from gunmen in Naqel al-Dhalea, while on his way to Aden, According to Cratersky news website.

E.M