An army soldier mans a machine gun mounted on a truck at the site of a police barrack which was bombed down by al Qaida insurgents in al-Mahfad, in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan on May 23, 2014. Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Al Qaeda Gunmen Storm Yemeni City, 27 People Killed -- Reuters
At least 27 people were killed in an overnight raid by gunmen on a city in southeastern Yemen, residents and a local official said on Saturday, as al Qaeda fought back against a government offensive.
Armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and explosives, attackers in Yemeni army uniforms drove in from the desert on 15 pickup trucks into Seyoun after detonating a car bomb at the entrance to the city in Hadramout province.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has carried out many hit-and-run attacks since the Yemeni army drove it from its southern strongholds in Abyan and Shabwa provinces last month.
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