Sites of STC militias bombarded by mortar shells in Abyan

ABYAN, May 03 (YPA) – Local gunmen targeted on Wednesday the positions and gatherings of UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia with a number of mortar shells in Abyan province.

According to informed sources, intermittent confrontations broke out with various types of weapons, after local gunmen believed to belong to Al-Qaeda targeted the positions and gatherings of “transitional” elements with a number of mortar shells in Wadi Al-Khayala of Al-Mahfad area, east of the province, without mentioning human and material losses.

The sources explained that the attack on the gatherings of the “transitional” elements comes in response to the killing of about 10 elements of what the pro-transitional media described as terrorists, during the past weeks.