A group of militants using two pickup trucks on Saturday evening attacked a security patrol in Ataq city, the capital of Shabwa governorate, the Ministry of Interior reported on its website.
The attack resulted in the death of four policemen and left another one injured. The ministry quoted both Brigadier General Awadh Thaiban, security chief of Shabwa, and Colonel Adlan Al-Dhali, the commander of the Special Security Forces in Shabwa, as claiming that evidence from the incident confirms it was a terror attack.
In late April the Yemeni military launched an offensive in Abyan and Shabwa aimed at clearing the two governorates of suspected Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants. The Defense Ministry said in May that its forces pushed suspected AQAP militants out of Azzan town in Maifa district in Shabwa, which the group took over in June 2011.
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