Suspected Shiite rebels kill three soldiers
Suspected Shi’ite rebels killed three soldiers and abducted several others after ambushing their vehicle in north Yemen on Friday, a local official said.”Houthi supporters burned the armoured personnel carrier and also kidnapped several soldiers after the attack, but it is still unclear how many,” the official from Saada province told Reuters in the capital Sanaa by telephone. An aide to rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi told Reuters five soldiers were killed in the ambush. Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries, has been battling a wave of al Qaeda attacks, as well as a Shi’ite Muslim rebellion in its north and rising secessionist sentiment in the south.
