2 STC militia members killed, 4 injured in Abayn

ABYAN, Feb. 15 (YPA) – At least two members of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia were killed and four others wounded on Thursday in an explosion of an explosive device in Abyan province, eastern Yemen.

Local sources in Abayn reported that unidentified gunmen targeted a vehicle belonging to the STC with an explosive device, leaving two dead and four injured in Al-Baqira area of Omran Valley in Modiya district.

This comes after the killing of the operations chief of the “Fifth Support Brigade,”  Abdullah Saad Ba Rujaila, and the staff officer of the first battalion in the brigade, Abdulmajeed Al-Elyani, during the first week of February, when four explosive devices were detonated at the entrance to the Omran valley.

YPA