YEMEN Press Agency

5 of al-Amaliqa Brigades kidnapped in Shabwa

SAHBWA, July. 24 (YPA) – About 5 members of the “Shabwa Defense” militia backed by the UAE were kidnapped on Sunday in the city of Ataq, the Shabwa provincial capital, in eastern Yemen.

Informed sources confirmed that unknown gunmen kidnapped 5 members of the Shabwa Defense militia, while they were passing through a city street and took them to an unknown place.

This came less than 24 hours after the Emirati- funded armed faction launched a massive arrest campaign against loyalists of the “special forces militia” led by “Abed Rabbo Lakab funded by Islah Party.

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