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General Category => World News => Topic started by: EC on March 24, 2014, 11:55:21 am

Title: Yemen says 20 soldiers killed in attack on military checkpoint
Post by: EC on March 24, 2014, 11:55:21 am

Via Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/yemen-says-20-soldiers-killed-attack-military-checkpoint-082327438.html

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Aden (Reuters) - Twenty Yemeni soldiers were killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in the eastern province of Hadramout, state news agency Saba said on Monday quoting a local official.

Yemen has been in turmoil since mass protests forced long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down in 2012.

His successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has been struggling to restore order in the country of 25 million, where al Qaeda militants have a strong presence.

(Reporting By Mohammed Mukhashaf; Writing By Maha El Dahan; editing by Sami Aboudi)

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