Citizens assassinated in Hadramout

HADRAMOUT, March 02 (YPA) – Two citizens were assassinated on Thursday in two separate operation in Hadramout province.

Human rights sources in the province said the one of citizens were killed by unknown gunmen in the areas of Wadi al-Dahab area of the Tarim district, and the other was killed in the center of the city of Shibam in Wadi Hadramout.

The sources attributed the return of the assassinations in Wadi Hadramout, to the military escalation between the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia and the Islah militants in “First Military Region”, amid demands for the Islah exit from all districts of the Wadi and Desert.