A senior official of Yemen’s pro-government security forces survived an explosion that struck his motorcade in the country’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa on Thursday, a government official told Xinhua.
“The explosion apparently caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), targeted the motorcade of Brigadier Awad Dhiban along with his soldiers while they were passing through the main street in Shabwa’s provincial city of Ataq,” the local government source said on condition of anonymity.
He clarified that Awad Dhiban survived the explosion unhurt, but his son and two soldiers lost their lives as a result of the terror incident.
Read more…
Source: XINHUANET