Dozens of Lahj tribes’ gunmen reject to leave Aden city

ADEN, Nov. 26 (YPA) – Dozens of gunmen from Al-Hadd tribe in Lahj province rejected on Sunday to leave the city of Aden, south of Yemen.

Local sources said that a leader in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) gave the militants a 72-hour deadline to reveal the fate of one of their sons who was forcibly hidden inside one of the prisons of the STC in the city.

The sources in the city affirmed that the militants of Al-Hadd tribe, led by a number of sheikhs, arrived in Aden city to meet the coalition-backed governor of Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, and to demand revealing the fate of their kidnapped son, Khaled Al-Haddi, who is the director of relations in the so-called Military Industrialization Department at the Ministry of Defense of the coalition-backed government, since the beginning of last October.

The sources explained that Lamlas informed the tribal sheikhs that he did not know about the kidnapping of Al-Haddi, asking to give him 72 hours to deal with the various factions.

The tribal sheikhs refused to leave Aden until they handed over their son Al-Haddi, who was kidnapped while he was driving his car from inside Tawahi city on last October 11.

This comes after an armed rally by the Al-Hadd tribes in the parade square in central Aden, during which they raised banners denouncing the incident of kidnapping and forced disappearance by members of the STC.

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