Several recruits injured due to clashes between Salafist factions in Al-Abra

HADHRAMAUT, Dec. 19 (YPA) – A number of Saudi-led coalition’s recruits have been injured on Sunday, in clashes broke out over    racist altercations between members of the Salafist camp in Hadhramaut province in eastern Yemen.

This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on testimonies of well-informed sources.

According to the Sources, Zeid al-Hajouri, the commander of the Salafist camp stationed in the Directorate of Al-Abar, clashed with members of a battalion belonging to Shabwah province led by Murad al-Awlaki.

The clashes left several wounded of both sides, the sources said.

The  sources added that soldiers of the Shabwah battalion took control of a number of military pickup vehicles  and deployed in the vicinity of the camp following the clashes, which broke out following a previous tension due to al-Hajouri’s insult and ridicule of Shabwah members.

The same sources confirmed the intervention of the command of the 23rd Infantry Brigade Mika to contain tension in the camp and the Shabwah soldiers hand over the  military vehicles they had captured.

The clashes came two days after dozens of members of the camp belonging to Shabwah rebelled and took control of the brigade’s headquarters, rejecting what they said the regional racist dealings of General Zeid al-Hajouri.

E.M