Violent clashes broke out today, Tuesday, between “Islah” militants and the Southern Transitional Militia.
According to local news in the governorate, the Transitional militia attacked the Islah militants in the Azan area, in response to the kidnapping of the transitional president in the governorate.
On the other hand, gunmen loyal to the Transitional targeted, earlier, one of the military Islah vehicles in the Lower Merkha district.
Local sources pointed out that the gunmen ambushed a military vehicle, leaving one dead and wounded.
The military escalation of the Transitional in Shabwa comes in response to the kidnapping of Islah militants, last week by the interim president of the province, Sheikh Ali Mohsen Al-Suleiman, and their kidnapping of the Transitional member Ahmed Faraj Abu Khalifa, earlier in the city of Ataq.
